ASL Summarizing
Macro or micro?
Finding the main idea
Summarizing
Macro processing
Comprehension doesn’t depend on the knowledge of the topic
Knowledge-lean skills
What is illocutionary force?
Preserves the meaning
conditionals
Eyebrows up , head tilted up and back at statement of condition
what is a lexical substitution?
the process of replacing a sign or a lexical item with another sign or lexical item while keeping the meaning of the message as constant as possible.
Macro or micro?
Gathering supporting details
How all of the details are related
Micro processing
Context sensitive skills that allow the interpreter to communicate the subtle differences in meaning and tone that the signer is expressing
Knowledge-rich skills
Give an example of a noun/ verb pair
Sit/chair
Door/ open-close door
Book/ open-close book
Window/open-close window
Comb/to comb
Food/eat
Airplane/fly
Typewriter/type
yes/no question
eyebrows up
What is a visuospatial sketch pad?
a construct that can assist in developing memory and accuracy in interpreting.
What are the five considerations for your audience before a job?
Size
Setting
Language Choice
Hearing Status
Background Knowledge
Central premise around all the rest is expanded
Main idea
What's a conditional? Give an example
if/Then
Statement then result/consequence
rhetoricals
eyebrows up
explicit vs implicit
explicit information is information that is overtly stated by lexical items and grammatical forms
Implicit information is information that is understood but not necessarily overtly stated
When and why do interpreters substitute words when working from ASL to English?
ASL word might not come to mind
No one-to-one correspondence for meaning
Large ASL vocabulary leaves the interpreter to render a better message
One word that labels the most important single concept
Key word
Give 3 examples of conjunctions
FINISH
Conjunction “then”
Listing activities, time-line
HAPPEN- unexpected event
FIND-unexpected discovery
WRONG-unexpected event without warning
HIT-unexpected positive circumstances
FRUSTRATE- unexpected obstacles
Wh questions
What are the four factors that are considered regarding form?
the picture, the ASL, the visualization, and the meaning that the forms share
5 levels of lexical substitution discourse
Words as propositional units
Specific to general words
Primary and secondary meanings
Compounds and collocations
Jargon
What is schema?
Plan or diagram based on previous knowledge
3 paraphrasing techniques
-Substitute one sign at a time with synonyms
-Reverse the clauses
-Specific to general
What are the registers of interpreting
frozen, formal, consultative, casual, and intimate
What are the 5 parameters of ASL
Hand shape
palm orientation
location
movement
NMS