Chapter 1: Are You Ready to Begin?

Question 1

Tacit culture

Answer 1

Actions and behaviors understood without being stated. Not always understood by outsiders

Question 2

Low-Context culture

Answer 2

Communicating thoughts, ideas, and info primarily through words, directly and explicitly.

Question 3

High-Context culture

Answer 3

Communicating thoughts, ideas, and info subtlety, by hinting and nonverbal forms. Deaf community because of shared thoughts, feelings, and actions

Question 4

Ethnocentrism

Answer 4

Unconscious belief that one’s culture is the

standard or norm which we use to measure what is “right.” Obstacle in cross-cultural interactions

Question 5

Interpreter characteristics

Answer 5

Confidence, flexibility, respect, lifelong learner, realistic

Question 6

Interpreter education

Answer 6

Beyond a degree and proficiency, ongoing professional development

Question 7

Reflective practitioner

Answer 7

Predict, reflect on, and analyze work to check where we can improve in the future. Can identify and fix error, while knowing that some things are out of our control

Question 8

Communication norms

Answer 8

How people communicate. Adherence to internalized rules

Question 9

Requirements to interpret

Answer 9

Near-native level in both languages, knowing oneself, able to go with the flow (see also: interpreter characteristics)

Question 10

Self-care

Answer 10

Taking care of and prioritizing oneself, practice what leads to wholeness