Chapter Eight: How We Approach Our Work

Question 1

Linguistic Expansion

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Cultural Expansion

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Bilingual-Bicultural (bi-bi)

Answer 3

Proficient in both Deaf culture and ASL

Question 4

Helper Model

Answer 4

Views interpreters as caretakers whose purpose is to help

Question 5

Conduit or Machine Model

Answer 5

Interpreters only there to facilitate language, no cultural mediation, values professionalism

Question 6

Communication Facilitation Model

Answer 6

More aware of visual intake for the Deaf client but still sees ASL as less than English

Question 7

Bi-Bi Ethical Decision making

Answer 7

• Human beings, not machines

- There’s inherent power in being the interpreter

Question 8

Maintaining Dynamic Equivalence

Answer 8

Maintain meaning and culture

Question 9

Accomplish speaker goal

Answer 9

Goals can be teaching, inspiring, entertaining, counseling

Question 10

Cultural and linguistic reduction

Answer 10

Involves reducing the volume/details of the information in the interpreting without loosing meaning