Chapter 8: Mediating Ways of Being Flashcards
Mediate/Mediation
Lets people from different cultures/languages interact, communicate, and understand. Helps break down psychological and social barriers
Worldview
Everything someone knows about the world around them (if through senses, everyone has a different one based on how they take in the information around them)
Emotive Value
Array of emotions in signed or spoken communication (raised voice, facial expressions, posture etc)
Expressions of emotive value
sarcasm, love, loss, pain, etc
Context/Contextualized
Words and signs happen in a specific time and place with certain people (one can’t understand what something means unless they understand the culture and language). One can’t separate language and culture
Scenario (Interpreters)
An interpreters must introduce themselves politely, explain if consumer hasn’t worked w/ interpreters before, ask before changing logistics, and recognize impact
American Deaf Culture
set of learned behaviors of a group of people who are Deaf and who have their own language (Dr. Kannapel). Interpreters mediate language, values, behaviors, and traditions
How Deaf Culture evolved
Naturally. Residential schools are where the Deaf community evolved. “as long as Deaf people have congregated in schools, clubs, and homes, they have passed down cultural patterns, values, and beliefs in the Deaf World”
Mediating Deaf and non-Deaf ways of being
Bilingual fluency, as well as unwritten rules, interactions, turn taking, backchanneling, emotions, power dynamics, AND considering other cultures. Unwrap INTENTION of message then re-wrap into the other language and culture
Mediating Turn-Taking
Deaf-visual cues (blink, nod, eye gaze). Hearing- pause. Interpreter may have to make the turn-giving cue more overt (adding the signs YOU THINK WHAT when a hearing person pauses, or even telling someone that it is their turn, etc)
