News ‘with’ or ‘in’ sign language? Case study on the comprehensibility of sign language in news broadcasts

This paper explores the issue of comprehensibility in TV news with sign language. It starts by discussing academic research showing that Deaf viewers often struggle to understand simultaneous interpretation newscasts Based on this literature review, we investigate Flemish case, where public broadcaster VRT offers evening Sign Language (VGT) a hearing interpreter, three empirical stages. First, conducted 20 interviews who confirmed comprehension is key problem, for reasons mostly related signing interpreters. Second, analyzed international alternative approaches, focusing particularly use interpreters and presenters. Third, based examples, developed an alternative, summarized format produced test broadcast, which was shown discussed same interviewees. Overall, they preferred understood newscast tailored their language information needs much better, among other things because presenter thought more fluent Fundamentally, also identified strongly anchor presenting