Fundamentals of Interpreting INT 325 2 nd

Fundamentals of Interpreting (INT # 325) 2 nd Class

Housekeeping * Class format: 50 min classes and 2 10 -minutes breaks * S-CPC is due on Sept 9 th, Wed * Blackboard and Email communication * Janis Cole – ASL Tutor * Outline – Contents * Marty Taylor books are here. Mon/Wed - 3. 30 -5. 30 pm Tues/Thurs - 5 -7 pm Fridays 9 -12. 30 pm / 2. 30 -5. 30 pm

Pre-Assessment Summary INT 223 1. List several examples of Discourse Features - 10/18 2. List several examples of Genres – 2/18 7. What are the five levels of Register? - 14/18 INT 325 3. List several categories under Cognitive Skills for translation and interpretation - 4/18

Pre-Assessment Summary 4. Explain Intralingual with their examples. - 1/18 5. Explain theory of The Effort Model. Who is the author of this theory? 0/18 6. List the steps of translation. 8/18 8. How would you analyze a discourse for translation and interpretation? 4/18

Pre-Assessment Summary 9. Give an example of a mindmapping or discourse mapping. You may use the back page to show. 8/18 10. Give an example for Semantic Networking. You may use the back page to show. 1/18

ANY QUESTIONS?

Review from Last Class

Review from Last Class 1. ASL Glossing: capital letters for ASL 2. General organization of sentence in ASL 3. Foreign Language, Verbatim and Translation 4. Listener’s Feedback

Agenda for Today 1. Reading Discussion 10 -min break 2. Concept mapping, mind mapping and discourse mapping 10 -min break 3. Cartwright Activity homework

Reading Summary Homework Post an attachment of PDF in Blackboard’s Assignment Filename: (your last name, first name) – Reading Summary - # Ex. Doe, John – Reading Summary #2 1. Summary (at least 1/2 page) 2. Reflection (separated from summary) 3. Questions (separated from reflection)

Memoir Upon the Formation of a Visual Variety of the Human Race (Bahan, 2004)

Various Eye Behaviors in Language What kind of information can eyes convey in ASL?

Various Eye Behaviors in Language What kind of information can eyes convey in ASL? *Add meaning to a word *Position an object *Demarcate boundaries *Bring the addressee in and out of a story *Play a role in turn taking

Grammar Lexical level BOY CUTE SHORT (gaze down) The boy is short and cute. Syntactic level IX-left (gaze left) MAN WANT BUY YOUR CAR The man (over there) wants to buy your car Indefinite reference SOMEONE (diffused gaze) MAN WANT BUY YOUR CAR A man wants to buy your car. Verb phrase JOHN LOVE MARY (gaze left) John loves Mary.

Role of Eyes in Discourse Conversation What does it means when Bahan (2004) states that eye contact helps to establish a “conversational partnership”? Turn taking One-on-One Classroom: Individual Gaze vs. Group Gaze Constructed Action and Constructed Dialogue Distance

Visual Language and The Brain Oliver Sacks A visual way of being: Peripheral Vision What possible advantages does having acute peripheral vision provide to deaf people? Spatial processing tasks Rapidly presented visual information tasks

Culture and Literature Shared experiences – recognition, identity, deaf eyes. Visual-cultural adaptations What visual cues do deaf people use to navigate a hearing world? Culture Social spaces Proxemics (social distance and position) Synchronicity Connection Deaf house From Bahan’s PPT Sensory Orientations and Sensory Politics.

Visual Symbolism in Arts and Literature Metaphor: “The book will show, as clearly as possible, how to go about bringing in through the window what cannot come in through the door; namely, to insinuate into the minds of the deaf through the visual channel what cannot reach them through the auditory channel” (l’Epee as cited in Bahan, p. 26, 2004) Symbolism: Doors Windows Humor Hearing people helpless.

References Bahan, Benjamin (2005). Memoir upon the formation of a visual variety of the human race. In Eldredge, B. , D. Stringham, and M. M. Wilding-Diaz (eds. ), Deaf studies today: A kaleidoscope of knowledge, learning and understanding, 2004 conference proceedings. Utah: Deaf Studies Today. 1, 16 -35.

10 -minute Break

The Joys of Mapping

Brain Game! Making a call through VRS

Brain Game! What topics come to mind? What vocabulary may come up? What call content issues may come up?

Concept Mapping/Mind Mapping

What is the sign for pizza? Consider: Is there one sign for pizza used nationwide? Which could be some regional variations?