PhD Graduate Profile: Daniel Roush

Dr. Daniel Roush

Education/Degrees

• Ph.D., Interpretation, Gallaudet University
• M.A., Linguistics, Gallaudet University
• B.A., Intercultural Ministries, Moody Bible Institute

Research Interests

• Relationship between translation and conceptual metaphor
• Interface between linguistic im/politeness and community interpreting
• Development and usability of software tools in support of signed language learning and bilingual/bimodal interpreter education

Dissertation Title

The Translation of Event-Structure Metaphors Rendered by Deaf Translators from English to American Sign Language

Selected Publications

• Roush, D. (2014) Event-structure metaphors in translation: The case of English political speeches translated into American Sign Language by Deaf translators. Presentation given at the 10th International Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference, Cagliari, Italy.
• Fels, D. I., Roush, D., Church, P., Gerdzhev, M., Stevens, T., & Hibbard, E. (2014). TerpTube: A signed language mentoring management system. Computers helping people with special needs: Lecture notes in computer science, 8548, 408-414.
• Roush, D. (2011). Revisiting the conduit metaphor in American Sign Language. In C. Roy (Ed.), Discourse in signed languages: Sociolinguistics in Deaf communities series (pp. 155-175). Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.