Ethical implications of language standardisation for sign language interpreters
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Sign language interpreters in the Netherlands are confronted with an unexpected ethical dilemma, involving language politics. These language politics involve the implementation of the standardisation of Sign Language of the Netherlands that was initiated by the Dutch government. In this paper we pose that the task of the interpreter is to facilitate communication according to the client’s wishes, and not to use the language variant that is assigned a special status through governmental policies. Many themes with regard to language standardisatio would merit serious discussion, but in this paper we choose to limit ourselves to the consequences for interpreters.
En: J. Mole (ed.) International perspectives on interpreting.