Unit 4: Comprehension from ASL questions and
100% correct answers 2025
Comprehension - ANSWER It allows you to understand and make sense of your surroundings.
Language comprehension encompasses what? - ANSWER - words
- syntax
- paralinguistic features
- prosody
- situational context
Gile says sustained analysis is what? - ANSWER a way to improve comprehension
According to Gile sustained analysis means interpreters must do what? - ANSWER continuall
attend and check probable meaning with the current context by
- if the meanings make sense
- are the meanings intended by the speaker
According to Weaver what are the three important types of processing related to
comprehension? - ANSWER - identifying the meaning units in the message
- identifying the speaker's intent
- using appropriate ELK or context into play to help frame the information
Comprehension allows the interpreter to do what? - ANSWER preceive and begin to decipher
the message
, What is an essential part to the message? - ANSWER the emotional and paralinguistic
information
- it must be correctly perceived and processed by the interpreter
Massaro and Schlesinger say what must be kept? - ANSWER emotional impact or illocutionary
force
What paralinguistic information must be kept? - ANSWER - the inflection of the message
- whether the message is signed or spoken
- the facial expression of the speaker
- the context in which the message is delivered
- who is the message delivered to
Schemas - ANSWER Ways people preceive the world
Taylor lists variables of ASL signs such as? - ANSWER - geographic location
- gender
- age
- professional status
What are the two broad categories of langauge skills - ANSWER - Knowledge-lean
- Knowledge-rich
Knowledge-lean skills - ANSWER directly related to ASL comprehension at the lexical and
discouse levels
- Comprehension of fingerspelled words, numbers, lexical items classifiers, NMM, negation, etc
100% correct answers 2025
Comprehension - ANSWER It allows you to understand and make sense of your surroundings.
Language comprehension encompasses what? - ANSWER - words
- syntax
- paralinguistic features
- prosody
- situational context
Gile says sustained analysis is what? - ANSWER a way to improve comprehension
According to Gile sustained analysis means interpreters must do what? - ANSWER continuall
attend and check probable meaning with the current context by
- if the meanings make sense
- are the meanings intended by the speaker
According to Weaver what are the three important types of processing related to
comprehension? - ANSWER - identifying the meaning units in the message
- identifying the speaker's intent
- using appropriate ELK or context into play to help frame the information
Comprehension allows the interpreter to do what? - ANSWER preceive and begin to decipher
the message
, What is an essential part to the message? - ANSWER the emotional and paralinguistic
information
- it must be correctly perceived and processed by the interpreter
Massaro and Schlesinger say what must be kept? - ANSWER emotional impact or illocutionary
force
What paralinguistic information must be kept? - ANSWER - the inflection of the message
- whether the message is signed or spoken
- the facial expression of the speaker
- the context in which the message is delivered
- who is the message delivered to
Schemas - ANSWER Ways people preceive the world
Taylor lists variables of ASL signs such as? - ANSWER - geographic location
- gender
- age
- professional status
What are the two broad categories of langauge skills - ANSWER - Knowledge-lean
- Knowledge-rich
Knowledge-lean skills - ANSWER directly related to ASL comprehension at the lexical and
discouse levels
- Comprehension of fingerspelled words, numbers, lexical items classifiers, NMM, negation, etc
