CASLI EVALUATION EXAMS ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Dynamic Equivalence - ✔✔-concerned with expressing the MESSAGE of the
original language in the words of the target language(speaker's goals should be
accomplished)
✔✔Empowerment of the client - ✔✔Behaving in a way that supports another's right to
make decisions
✔✔environmental factors - ✔✔Environmental demands
✔✔equivocal language - ✔✔ambiguous language that has two or more equally
plausible meanings
✔✔Ethnocentrism - ✔✔Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
✔✔Euphemistic Language - ✔✔Using mild language in an attempt to soften harsh
language, socially acceptable terms
✔✔external noise - ✔✔conditions in the environment that interfere with listening
✔✔Fatalism or passivity - ✔✔Tendency of members of an oppressed group to feel
powerless to change
✔✔Helper Philosophy - ✔✔Interpreter as a care-taker. First philosophy of RID, back in
1964
✔✔Processing time - ✔✔Lag time
✔✔Lineage of deaf children - ✔✔90%+ born to hearing parents
✔✔Linguistic Expansion - ✔✔Interpret implicit information provided in SL, more
explicitly in TL
, ✔✔Linguistic reduction - ✔✔Reducing explicit info given in SL when going to TL
✔✔MCE - ✔✔Manually coded English, general term for English signing sysyems
✔✔Minimal language competency - ✔✔Term for those with little asl or English skills.
May use gestures, home signs, etc.
✔✔Modality - ✔✔Channel through which a message is expressed. Specifically
aural/oral or visual/gestural.
✔✔NMS - ✔✔non-manual signals
✔✔Oral Transliterator - ✔✔One who rephrased the message in clearly speech-readable
forms for a Deaf consumer
✔✔Paralinguistic elements - ✔✔Elements that accompany and add meaning to the
expression of language; includes such things as gestures, tone of voice/size of signs,
visual/vocal affect, etc.
✔✔passive voice - ✔✔The actor performing the action indicates by the verb is not
overtly identified
✔✔Physiological noice - ✔✔Biological factors that interfere with communication such as
hunger, exhaustion, or illness.
✔✔PSE - ✔✔Pidgin Sign English (contact sign)
✔✔Prosody - ✔✔The rhythm of speech with pauses and phraseology, as well as certain
auditory intonation patterns.
✔✔Psychological noise - ✔✔The thoughts and feelings that distract people from
listening to what is said, or interfere with communication
✔✔Real world classifiers - ✔✔Take on life size proportions
✔✔Reciprocal signs - ✔✔(Back channeling)
✔✔Registers - ✔✔Frozen, formal, informal, casual, intimate
✔✔RID - ✔✔Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf 1964
✔✔RSI - ✔✔Repetitive strain injury
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Dynamic Equivalence - ✔✔-concerned with expressing the MESSAGE of the
original language in the words of the target language(speaker's goals should be
accomplished)
✔✔Empowerment of the client - ✔✔Behaving in a way that supports another's right to
make decisions
✔✔environmental factors - ✔✔Environmental demands
✔✔equivocal language - ✔✔ambiguous language that has two or more equally
plausible meanings
✔✔Ethnocentrism - ✔✔Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.
✔✔Euphemistic Language - ✔✔Using mild language in an attempt to soften harsh
language, socially acceptable terms
✔✔external noise - ✔✔conditions in the environment that interfere with listening
✔✔Fatalism or passivity - ✔✔Tendency of members of an oppressed group to feel
powerless to change
✔✔Helper Philosophy - ✔✔Interpreter as a care-taker. First philosophy of RID, back in
1964
✔✔Processing time - ✔✔Lag time
✔✔Lineage of deaf children - ✔✔90%+ born to hearing parents
✔✔Linguistic Expansion - ✔✔Interpret implicit information provided in SL, more
explicitly in TL
, ✔✔Linguistic reduction - ✔✔Reducing explicit info given in SL when going to TL
✔✔MCE - ✔✔Manually coded English, general term for English signing sysyems
✔✔Minimal language competency - ✔✔Term for those with little asl or English skills.
May use gestures, home signs, etc.
✔✔Modality - ✔✔Channel through which a message is expressed. Specifically
aural/oral or visual/gestural.
✔✔NMS - ✔✔non-manual signals
✔✔Oral Transliterator - ✔✔One who rephrased the message in clearly speech-readable
forms for a Deaf consumer
✔✔Paralinguistic elements - ✔✔Elements that accompany and add meaning to the
expression of language; includes such things as gestures, tone of voice/size of signs,
visual/vocal affect, etc.
✔✔passive voice - ✔✔The actor performing the action indicates by the verb is not
overtly identified
✔✔Physiological noice - ✔✔Biological factors that interfere with communication such as
hunger, exhaustion, or illness.
✔✔PSE - ✔✔Pidgin Sign English (contact sign)
✔✔Prosody - ✔✔The rhythm of speech with pauses and phraseology, as well as certain
auditory intonation patterns.
✔✔Psychological noise - ✔✔The thoughts and feelings that distract people from
listening to what is said, or interfere with communication
✔✔Real world classifiers - ✔✔Take on life size proportions
✔✔Reciprocal signs - ✔✔(Back channeling)
✔✔Registers - ✔✔Frozen, formal, informal, casual, intimate
✔✔RID - ✔✔Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf 1964
✔✔RSI - ✔✔Repetitive strain injury
