Knowledge Exam Flashcards
Ch.1 What are non-verbal cues?
Facial expressions, gestures, body posture, vocal tones and so on.
Ch.1 What is psychological noise?
In the heads of all participants in a communication environment.
Ch.1 What is physiological noise?
Biological factors that interfere with communication, such as illness and exhaustion.
Ch.1 What is Equivocal language?
Words signs and phrases that can be interpreted in more than one way in order to mislead someone.
Ch.1 What is Euphemistic language?
A manner in which we replace blunt phrases to descriptive ones.
Ch.1 What does intimate register consist of?
Turn-taking: Interruption is common
Sentence structure: Incomplete
Vocabulary: Some lexicon has personal meanings.
Volume/Speed: Small, truncated; sometimes words/signs are not required.
Topics Allowed: Personal
Ch.1 What does frozen register consist of?
Turn-taking: None
Sentence structure: Complex; sometimes archaic
Vocabulary: Formal and/ or archaic
Volume/Speed: Large; slower than normal speed
Topics Allowed: Limited
Ch.1 What does formal register consist of?
Turn-taking: Limited/Controlled Sentence structure: Complex; compounds Vocabulary: Formal Volume/Speed: Large; slower than normal speed Topics Allowed: Impersonal
Ch.1 What does consultative register consist of?
Turn-taking: Restrained but active Sentence structure: Fully formed Vocabulary: Technical jargon Volume/Speed: Conversational speed and signing space Topics Allowed: Professional
Ch.1 What does casual register consist of?
Turn-taking: Fluid; interruptions allowed
Sentence structure: fragments; some run-ons
Vocabulary: Informal
Volume/Speed: Relaxed signing space; faster than conversational
Topics Allowed: Personal
Ch.2 What is a collectivist mindset?
“it takes a village to raise a child” Sevety percent of worldd cultures fit into this category, including American Indiginous cultures.
Ch.2 What is a individualistic mindset?
“American cut-throat culture” American cultures fits within this category
Ch.2 What does culture entail?
Family and palce in it Gender Social Experiences Economic status Educational Experiences Physical, mental,emotional and s[piritual development Temporment or personality type
Ch.2 How does cultural undestnading aid in our field?
Provides a frame or schema for living within a specifeid group of people; cultures vary in a number of ways (degree or interdependace and independance, gender roles, etc.)
Ch.2 What is the significance of a interrpeter?
Interpretors are professional communciators, mediating interactions between peopel of differnet language and culture groups.
Ch.2 What cultural perspecitve is prominent here in the US?
White Male Anglo-saxons
Ch.2 What is the cultural lense we should work in an assignement?
“It depends”
Ch.2 What is status?
The persons idenitity where they have a role within a group.
Role Delineation
It. is the responsibility of both interpreters to prepare for the interpreting assignment
Ch.3 What is the importance of idenity and labeling?
You hold power to repsect and acknowledge soemoens idenitiy that can be a dep root of who they are.
Ch.3 What is the hearign view of Deaf/deaf/ HoH ommunities?
Hearing impared, a level of hearign loss,
Ch.3 What are reciprical signals?
Ex: ASL is an interactive language, requireing frequent feedback from hte participants ina conversation.
Ch.4 What are forms of dynamic commucnation used by the Deaf Community?
ASL, SEE, PSE, Rochester Method, other sign languages.
Ch.4 What is one misconception people have seen in ASL?
ASL has been historically been mislabelled as “poor English’ or “slang” and has beeen devalued by the education system.