Knowledge

Question 1

deaf

Answer 1

Any person who has a hearing loss severe enough to hinder communication through the use of speech and hearing

Question 2

Deaf

Answer 2

Denotes cultural and linguistic elements pertinent to the Deaf Community (hearing loss, Deaf Community, use of ASL)

Question 3

Hard of Hearing

Answer 3

A term used to refer to individuals who have some degree of hearing loss, but are still able to speak and understand English through oral/aural means (may also involve the use of assistive listening devices)

Question 4

Hearing

Answer 4

A term used within the Deaf community to refer to non-Deaf people who are basically misinformed or uninformed about the Deaf experience.

Question 5

Hearing Impaired

Answer 5

A term used within the majority culture to refer to all individuals with a loss of hearing, regardless of the degree of loss or manner in which the individual has been encultured. This term is deemed politically correct within the majority culture, but is offensive to many members of the Deaf Culture.

Question 6

Initiator(source)

Answer 6

The person who expresses something by speech or sign.

Question 7

Target

Answer 7

The individual or group who receives the message.

Question 8

Interpreter

Answer 8

The individual who perceives the message, briefly stores it in memory, selects an appropriate way of expressing it in a second language or another form of communication, then expresses it.

Question 9

Paralinguistics

Answer 9

The way words or signs are delivered

Question 10

Noise

Answer 10

Any signal that interferes with the transmission of the message (may consist of misleading gestures and facial expressions or misconstrued aspects of the original message)

Question 11

Code Switching 3

Answer 11

1.The conscious or unconscious movement from ASL into English-like signing or from English-like signing to ASL
Done to prevent non-deaf people from mastering ASL
Has roots in the history of Deaf people as an oppressed minority
2.May be based on the need for expediency of communication
3.Alternating between on language and another (changing from ASL to English signing or speaking)
This is a convenient linguistic device for incorporating English idioms into ASL-dominant conversation and for providing the exact wording of an English phrase

Question 12

Lexical Borrowing 2

Answer 12

1. Taking words from one language and using them in another language
2. Knowledge of lexical borrowings enhances interpreters’ ability to define their own styles as well as to communicate more effectively in signs

Question 13

Processing time/lag time

Answer 13

The interval between an interpreter perceiving a message and conveying it

Question 14

Content

Answer 14

The subject matter being addressed; that which is communicated as the meaning or substance of the message; refers to facts, ideas, and information expressed

Question 15

Context

Answer 15

The circumstances surrounding an act or event. The setting in which a specific discourse occurs, which helps inform or explain what is meant by what is being said.

Question 16

Function

Answer 16

The specific purpose for which something is stated. The general purpose behind the words of a message, what the speakers intend to accomplish

Question 17

Setting

Answer 17

The particular occasion in which interpreting takes place (college course, lecture, graduation, doctor’s office, etc)

Question 18

Interpretation 4

Answer 18

1. The end product that results from a complex cognitive process in which a speaker/signer’s intent, originally expressed in one naturally developed language, is accurately conveyed in another naturally developed language. With respect to Sign Language interpretation, this task refers to changing English messages into the native language of Deaf People, ASL, or vise versa
2. The process of changing a message produced in one language immediately into another
3. This is a live and immediate transmission (real time)
4. Conveys all essential elements of meaning and maintains dynamic equivalence

Question 19

Transliteration 10

Answer 19

1. The process of changing an English text into a manually coded system of English or vise versa. This task is applied when the consumers of the service ( both Deaf and non-deaf) are English users. When rendering the message into a manually-coded form of English, the transliterator typically mouths all English words in an effort to provide sign-supported English
2. Transcription of a written text from a non-Roman print or script form to Roman letters (written)
3. The process of changing an English text into Manually Coded English (or vice versa)
4. Using the same language but a different mode of communication
5. Giving a visually accessible form of English
6. Matching a sign to every spoken word, or vice versa
7. Target remains true and accurate with regard to the source text
8. Conveys messages using sequences of signs arranged according to English syntax
9. Is difficult because of the need to sign it
10. Interpreters depend on their ability to incorporate ASL features in English word order

Question 20

Translation 2

Answer 20

1. Changing messages from one language to another (changing one written language to another)
2. Frozen to Frozen or written to written

Question 21

Source Language

Answer 21

The language from which one interprets

Question 22

Target Language

Answer 22

The language into which the interpretation is made

Question 23

A Language

Answer 23

One’s first language or mother tongue

Question 24

B Language (2)

Answer 24

1. Another active language which the interpreter commands

2. Interpreter can interpret this accurately

Question 25

C Language (2)

Answer 25

1. Passive Languages the interpreter uses 2. The interpreter can understand these languages well enough to interpret from them, but not well enough to interpret into them

Question 26

An interpreter may have an ___ as their source languages but only _ and _ can be their target languages

Answer 26

a,b,c | a,b

Question 27

Gloss

Answer 27

Gives a literal rendering of each element from the source language in order into the target language

Question 28

Miscue

Answer 28

A deviation that surfaces when the meaning of an interpretation is compared with the meaning of the original text on which the interpretation is based

Question 29

Simultaneous Interpreting (2)

Answer 29

1. An interpretation that is delivered nearly instantaneously after the original message 2. This process should be integral (each though will be represented in full form as given by the original message)

Question 30

Consecutive Interpreting

Answer 30

Involves the interpreter's ability to repeat the message in the target language following the original speaker's presentation

Question 31

Liaison Interpreting

Answer 31

Situations in which the interpreter may have little or no special preparation and accompanies an individual or group in one or more meetings, tours, and activities

Question 32

Relay Interpreting

Answer 32

One interpreter must rely on another interpreter's output to serve as input for his or her interpretation

Question 33

Client (2)

Answer 33

1. Hiring Party | 2. One who seeks assistance from an organization which provides interpreters as part of its usual business

Question 34

Consumer (2)

Answer 34

1. Audience | 2. This person has no implied relationship to the hiring procedure but simply is on the receiving end of interpretation

Question 35

Reciprocity of | perspectives (3)

Answer 35

1. An assumption, commonly held by members of one culture when considering another cultural group 2. members of the first group assume that the experiences and values of another group are identical to their own 3. Based on failure to appreciate the differences between each culture's world view and the uniqueness of the experiences and values of members within each group

Question 36

Ethnocentric

Answer 36

An attitude that one's own race or culture is superior to all others

Question 37

Disglossia

Answer 37

The use of two languages or of two varieties of the same language in a community in which one has a higher status than the other

Question 38

Audism(2)

Answer 38

1. Judges, labels, and limits individuals on the basis of inability to hear 2. Results in negative stigma toward individuals who do not hear auditory stimuli

Question 39

Linguistic Expansion

Answer 39

Interpreting implicit information or ideas, as well as the explicit information and ideas if it is needed to guarantee full communication

Question 40

Cultural Expansion

Answer 40

Providing the contextual information needed to make sense out of something that is signed or said to someone with a different schema or experiential base

Question 41

Cultural or Linguistic Reduction

Answer 41

Reducing the volume and sometimes the detail of information without affecting the meaning intended

Question 42

Expansions or reductions are used because of _,_, or _

Answer 42

Linguistic need, cultural need, or differences in experiential frame.