chapter 8

Question 1

helper philosophical frame

Answer 1

deaf people are disabled and need our hearing people help, interpreter is similar to caregiver, interpreter’s role is to advise, direct, teach, or cajole, ASL is poor English, deaf have no culture

Question 2

conduit or machine philosophical frame

Answer 2

interpreters hold no responsibility for interaction or communication dynamics, rigid and inflexible, deaf people need to handle themselves, ASL is not a language and Deaf don’t have culture, English is superior

Question 3

communication facilitation philosophical frame

Answer 3

view deaf people as disabled and wanted to join the hearing world, views ASL as helpful but still not a language, takes consideration to environmental factors, emphasis on interpreter’s appearance

Question 4

bilingual-bicultural philosophical frame

Answer 4

deaf people are members of an oppressed group, ASL is a language and deaf have culture, interpreter is an equalizer and should empower deaf, consideration to environmental factors, sensitive to communication dynamics, defines interpretation more broadly-cultural equivalence

Question 5

linguistic expansion

Answer 5

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

Question 6

name the philosophical frame in chronical order

Answer 6

helper, conduit, communication facilitation, bi-bi (not in book but next advocate/ally)

Question 7

philosophical frame shapes how interpreters

Answer 7

make communication decisions, their view on Deaf community, their view of ASL, ethical decision making, involvement in the deaf community, dynamics of power

Question 8

cultural expansion

Answer 8

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 9

cultural or linguistic reduction

Answer 9

involves reducing the volume, and sometimes the detail of information without affecting the meaning intended. dur to cultural social and communication norms and expectations

Question 10

linguistic and cultural adaptations are made based one 3 reasons

Answer 10

linguistic need, cultural need, difference in experiential frame