Sign Language Interpreters: Excercising Status Agility to Achieve Social Balance
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Status Transactions: The “It” Factor in Sign Language Interpreting?
Wing Butlerhttp://www.streetleverage.com/status-transactions-the-it-factor-in-sign-language-interpreting/
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SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS: EXERCISING STATUS AGILITY TO ACHIEVE SOCIAL BALANCE?
Wing Butler
IN THIS SESSION, WING WILL EXAMINE THE CONSTRUCTS OF STATUS, THE RULES AND PRINCIPLES OF STATUS NAVIGATION, AND OFFER INSIGHT INTO HOW TODAY’S INTERPRETER CAN INCORPORATE AN INCREASED LEVEL OF STATUS AGILITY INTO THEIR WORK TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL
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Dr. Flavia Fleischer
2 - “While a Deaf person may be perfectly capable of achieving success in whatever ways make sense to him, navigating social and physical spaces (that are designed for and by people who hear) to attain that success can be maddening if not exhausting”
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Status:The relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something.
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Status:The relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something.
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HUMILITY
1 - “We take for granted that one’s awareness of oneself is accurate”
2 - “A person who had been using himself wrongly for a long time could not trust himself”
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RECIPROCITY
3 – “Every inflection & movement implies a status and that no action is due to chance or really motiveless”
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Reciprocity: We choose to move in a way that doesn’t widen status gaps, and closer if we can.
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Language Conflicts in Meta Behavior
High Status (Dominant)• EYES: Breakaway• POSTURE: Up right • HEAD MOVEMENT: Stillness• SPACE: Lager space• SPEECH: Full sentences• BODY MOVEMENT: Slow
control of body • TOES: Pointed outwards
Low Status (Submissive)• EYES: Breakaway, glance back• POSTURE: Compensated• HEAD MOVEMENT: More • SPACE: Smaller space• SPEECH: Tentative eh,er, um• BODY MOVEMENT: Quick,
jerky body movements • TOES: Pointed inwards
Impro, Keith Johnstone
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Status Conflicts in Interpreting Dynamics
High Status (Dominant)• Doctor• Employer• Supervisor• Police• Friend• Parent
Low Status (Submissive)• Patient• Employee• Team Member• Civilian• Friend• Child