Giulia Petitta

List of John Benjamins publications for which Giulia Petitta plays a role.

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Petitta, Giulia, Mark Halley and Brenda Nicodemus 2018 “What’s the sign for nitty gritty ?”: Managing metalinguistic references in ASL-English dialogue interpreting Signed Language Interpreting and Translation, Swabey, Laurie and Brenda Nicodemus (eds.), pp. 49–70 | Article
Humans have the unique capability of using language to talk about language (Jakobson 1957). For example, one can say, “The Italian word for dog is cane.” These metalinguistic references can create a dilemma for interpreters because the critical linguistic term (i.e., cane) must be maintained in… read more