For transparency in data collection, we provide detailed methods for engaging the services of translators (for written text), interpreters (for spoken language) and transcriptionists (for transcribed language to be used in analysis) [ 55, 56].
Also, in order to obtain informed consent, it may be necessary to have a sign or speech-to-text interpreter present.
When somebody becomes HI at a later age and has been able to develop normal literacy skills, it can be useful to ask a speech-to-text interpreter to assist the consultation.
It can be useful to ask for the presence of a mediator such as a sign or speech-to-text interpreter or a healthcare worker who is trained in communication with patients who are HI.
After his return to the United States he attended lectures at Columbia University by D.T. Suzuki, an influential translator of Buddhist texts and interpreter of Zen thought.
This frustrating vagueness and signature indecision in the text leaves interpreters to philosophize about what Zhuangzi's implicit answer (明 míngdiscern:clear) might be.
Even judging better from worse readings almost always hinges more on the interpretation given to the text by the interpreter and/or translator, and the purpose(s) for which the translation was done, topics to which we will now turn.
Your readers should know, however, that a translator works with written text and an interpreter works with oral speech.
He did give his speeches in Bulgarian, but his voice was so wavering that after he read a few paragraphs, he handed the texts to an interpreter.
But in the case of a text separated from the interpreter by radical difference, knowledge of such a range itself presents a problem.
