ESLIN BSL

ESLIN Training day
5th March 2016
Chelmsford
Copies of Slides and flipchart
for CPD evidence
Understanding Mental Health
For example:
Compare videos of…
BSL to English
A different way of looking at it…
Question:
Young deaf adult
What is your approach to
BSL - English interpreting?
with - deaf activist speech
with - Deaf comedian
with - personal experience (traumatic)
Disclaimer
All video files can be found in the
Public Domain
on
Our training - Perspective
Considerations:
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Audience
Managing expectations
How measure a successful interpretation
Do we also consider?
What do we see?
Managing expectations:
Social linguistic factors:
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HOW
Place names
Borrowing
Expressions
Idioms
Knowledge of the topic
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e.g.: region, accent, age, ethnicity, gender, social class,
acquisition of sign, foreign sign languages,
method of education ……..
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Humour
Emotions
Sarcasm
Don't forget we have not discussed other
audiences who may or
may not be part of the interaction
For example:
People around but to party to the discussion
Overhearer's or observers
Reflect - what impact (if any) should we consider…