This paper has elaborated Coffin's (2000, 2006) Voices of History framework to include Surveyor Voice an intermediary voice between Recorder and Appraiser that is marked by a high probability of high/low Significance and non-author-oriented Affect.
Considering these issues in applying the Voices of History framework to textbooks, it seems necessary to propose a new, intermediary voice between Recorder and Interpreter that is characterized by a high occurrence of the resources of Significance and Affect.
Civil servants can ask themselves five key questions when handling the new policy: 1 How and where can the influence and trusted voice of intermediaries best be used? 2 How can citizens and communities help design and deliver public good initiatives?
The revised Voices of History framework shown in Fig. 1 locates Surveyor Voice at an intermediary position between the 'disinterested', 'objective' Recorder Voice and the intrusive, attitudinally-invested Appraiser Voices.
It brings the best brand name in the telecommunications world to the most widely distributed product line in the networking universe: every kind of gear to connect to the network (data, voice, video), the intermediary steps to get to the big networks (switches, remote access), and the world's biggest backbone network itself.
To sum up, Surveyor Voice, located at an intermediary point between the Recorder and Appraiser Voices, goes beyond a local, factual description of events (Recorder Voice) to grade larger patterns of cause, time, and change on the historical landscape in terms of their relative significance.
The offer -- conveyed through such unlikely intermediaries as a reporter at the cop-critical Village Voice and a Bronx captain without sufficient rank to guarantee such a deal -- featured a cushy job in the canine unit for the animal-loving Schoolcraft.
We need full-time teachers of tech, just like language instructors, to encourage students to find their own voice, to occasionally translate, to serve as intermediaries committed to guiding students as they study the relationship between the oft-confusing world of technical terminology and the English language.
Real-time voice translation is equally incredible, and can act as an intermediary for two people holding a conversation using different languages.
As apparent in Fig. 2, there is a progression from Emoter to Adjudicator Voice: from history-based archival knowledge to historian-based interpretive knowledge with Surveyor Voice occupying an intermediary position between the documentary and representational phases.
As Maribel Hastings of America's Voice put it, writing in Spanish: "Millions of undocumented people see in the pope a defender and intermediary who can change hearts … At least many people hope that the pope will somehow tackle the poisonous and prejudicial atmosphere that now grips the Republican race for the presidential nomination".
