Spirit medium language mediation: A neglected form of interpreting?
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2017
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University of Namibia
Abstract
While the need for interpreting has been growing as can be evidenced
by intensification of research on interpreting and establishment
and expansion of interpreting institutions and course programmes
worldwide, the interpreting research landscape has been devoid of
insightful research on African indigenous forms of interpreting. Using
the Bhasukuma1 spirit medium transcendental language mediation
(henceforth TLM) as a case study, the present paper examines
interpreting definitional criteria in a bid to make a comparison with
TLM features and determine what the comparison may reveal with
regard to the relationship between interpreting and TLM. To achieve
this objective, the researcher used literature research to glean the
criteria used by previous interpreting scholars to define the concept
interpreting, after which the criteria were used as an observation
schedule for fieldwork observations. Results indicate that TLM
exhibits all of the criteria used in defining interpreting. The present
paper, therefore, concludes that the Bhasukuma spirit medium TLM
is an indigenous form of interpreting, to which people have not been
exposed and recommends that African scholars should take the
responsibility of educating and re-educating the world about their
unknown realities to better the understanding of the same.
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Indigenous interpreting
Citation
Mpemba, T. (2017). Spirit medium language mediation: A neglected form of interpreting?. JULACE: Journal of University of Namibia Language Centre, 2(2), 123-144.