Most of the work in this class will involve students producing appropriate, accurate ASL discourse. This course includes a study of conversational exchanges in English and ASL, including open and close signals, backchannel signals, turnover signals, acoustically adequate and interpretable messages, bracket signals, non-participant constraints, preempt signals, and Grice s maxims. This course includes an overview of the theoretical models of translation and interpretation, provides skill development activities for isolated interpreting sub-tasks and practice activities for the integration of these tasks in translation activities. This is the first course in a two-course sequence in which students develop the ability to produce an equivalent ASL message from a spoken English source message. The focus of this course is text analysis and consecutively producing an equivalent message in the target language.
Content also includes interpreting management strategies for voice to sign interpreting.
Students will interpret both rehearsed and unrehearsed monologues and dialogues. This is the first course in a two-course sequence in which students develop the ability to produce an equivalent spoken English message from an ASL source message. The focus of this course is text analysis and consecutively producing an equivalent message in the targeted language. Content also includes interpreting management strategies for sign to voice interpreting. Students will interpret both rehearsed and unrehearsed monologues and dialogues.