"Sign Language Interpreting: Exploring its Art and Science"
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ball State Conference | Muncie, Indiana in 1964, established RID |
| AVLIC | Association of Visual Language Interpreters of Canada, established in 1979 |
| Rehabilitation Act of 1973 | Accommodations must be provided in any institution receiving funds from the government |
| Americans With Disabilities Act | passed in 1990; businesses with 15 or more employees must provide reasonable accommodations; ambiguous phrasing like "qualified" and "reasonable accommodations" |
| Bilingual, Hearing, and Speech Impaired Court Interpreter Act | Passed in 1977, requires court appoint and pay for interpreters |
| Education of Handicapped Children Act (PL 94-142) | All disabled children should be educated in the "least restrictive environment", passed in 1975 |
| Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) | Reaffirmed 1975 act, ensuring interpreters for Deaf children |
| National Interpreter Training Consortium (NITC) | Made up of 6 universities to educate interpreters |
| Interactive Model of Interpreting | emcompasses contributions of all participants and the environment (physical and psychological) |
| Participants | Initiator, receiver, and interpreter |
| The Message | Content, including information, imperatives, questions, casual comments, emotional expressions, AND paralinguistic elements |
| Bi-Bi Models of Interpreting | Interpreters may use judgment of individual situations to become "cultural mediators" |
| Parentalism | An attitude often taken on by interpreters; that the ability to hear and to sign give them moral or intellectual superiority |
| Cokely | First to research processing time; processing time leads to higher interpreter accuracy, but has the inverse reaction if there is TOO much processing time. |
| Code Mixing | a single language dominates, but elements of another language are intertwined |
| Code Switching | Going back and forth from one language to another |
| Lexical borrowing | taking one word from another language; in ASL "lexical fingerspelling' |
| Transliteration | Matching a sign for every spoken word, and vice versa |
| English mouthing | Mouthing the English words to facilitate lipreading |
| ASL lipreading | Specific movements that accompany ASL grammar such as "Cha" and "Pah" |
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