Terminology
A bilingual-bicultural professional who supports communication between people who use different languages.
What is an Interpreter?
The people who are our consumers while we are interpreting.
Who are both the D/deaf and hearing client?
The type of interpreting which is more accurate.
What is Consecutive Interpreting?
The language you learn later in life, not your native language.
The tenet of the Code of Professional Conduct which deals with the general conduct of the interpreter.
What is CPC tenet 3.0?
The language into which the original language is interpreted.
What is the Target Language (TL)?
What interpreters call the language of the original message.
What is the Source Language (SL)?
The process of rendering a message from ASL into Spoken English.
What is Sign to Voice Interpreting?
The process of rendering a message from Spoken English into ASL.
What is Voice to Sign interpreting?
The law which requires students to be educated in the Least Restrictive Environment.
What is PL 94-142?
Changing a message from the frozen form of one language to the frozen form of another language, done over time.
What is Translation?
A complex process which requires a high degree of linguistic, cognitive, and technical skills; more than simply replacing a spoken word with a signed representation of that word.
What is Interpreting?
The order in which an interpreter should be more competent; working from L_ into L_.
What is L2 into L1 / B language into A language?
After analyzing for meaning and intent, expressing a message in a different form of the same language.
What is Transliteration?
The type of demand that deals with Jargon.
What is an Environmental Demand?
How a language is expressed; specifically aural/oral or visual.
What is Modality?
The types of settings in which Consecutive Interpreting is used.
What are one-on-one or small group settings?
(Such as witness testimony, doctor's appointments, meetings with social workers / counsellors, etc.)
The order from the most to the least amount of processing time used in the three main forms of "interpreting".
What is Consecutive Interpreting, Simultaneous Interpreting, then Transliteration?
When you work from written English into ASL, without looking at the text beforehand.
What is Sight Translation?
The type of demand that deals with "thought worlds".
What is an Interpersonal Demand?
The time used by the interpreter to complete an analysis of the SL message before producing an equivalent message in the TL.
What is Processing Time?
The work an interpreter does before arriving at a job site.
What is Prep Work?
(Research / becoming familiar with subject matter, including words and phrases common to the setting)
Characteristics for appropriate assignments for new interpreters.
What are preparation time, less turn taking, less complex material, and not highly emotive situations?
(Parent-Teacher Conferences, One-on-One encounters, Lectures/Presentations; ~if about familiar or accessible topics)
When accomplished in an interpretation; the speaker's intended goals, impact, and level of audience involvement is the same for all audience members, regardless of which language they receive the message.
What is Dynamic Equivalence?
The language options for taking the EIPA exam.
What are ASL, PSE, and MCE?