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More vocab for NIC Written

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ASLTA   American Sign Language Teachers Association. Objectives are to provide a closer relationship between teachers of ASL and Deaf Studies and other organizations having complimentary interests.  
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ASL Grammar   Includes syntax, referential space and time, mouth morphemes, sign articulation.  
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Backchannel   Message - recipient behaviors, such as "uh-huh", head nod, quizzical look or frown.  
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Bilateral Interpreting   Interpreting both Voice-to-Sign and Sign-to-Voice. AKA Liason Interpreting.  
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Bimodal   Simultaneously two ways.  
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Open Captioning   Captioning is part of (embedded in) the original film or transmission, can't turn it off.  
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Closed Captioning   Captioning is added by additional process, can turn it off or on.  
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Chunking   To break lengthy dialogue into manageable concept-related pieces.  
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Classifiers   Used in context to represent something belonging to a semantic class (ex: vehical, person, animal).  
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CODA   Child of a Deaf Adult. Raised by D/deaf parents.  
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Code   Systematic representation of a language (ex: Morse Code). A code is not a language, it is the representation of a language by using signals or other symbols, letters, words, etc.  
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Code of Professional Conduct (CPC)   RID's Code of Ethics and behaviors for Interpreters.  
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Compression   Strategically and consciously "repackaging" or omitting info that is redundant or not relevant in the context of the target language culture, while retaining the intended meaning.  
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Consumer   User of interpreting services, both hearing and deaf.  
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Cued Speech   Manual coding/representation of language phonemes.  
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deaf   Having a hearing deficit; partically or completely without the sense of hearing. Some people say deaf describes a medical fact; some say it describes a linguistic minority group.  
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Deaf   Upper-case D is a cultural, community, or linguistic affiliation or identity. Big-D is another way to say deaf with a capital D.  
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Deaf Culture   Language, art, icons, history, customes, and conventions and affinities of the Deaf Community.  
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Deaf-blind   Deaf and Blind  
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Deaf plus   Person who is deaf and has, for example, blindness, autism, or cerebral palsy.  
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Equal access   Available equally to hearing and deaf persons.  
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Expansion   Strategically and consciously "repackaging" or enhancing discourse feature of a low-context sourse message to make it linguistically and culturally relevant of meaningful in the target language while maintaning the intended meaning.  
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Gestuno   International Sign Language.  
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Gesture   Irregular, imprecise, spontaneous movement that accompanies communication.  
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Gloss   Quick or basic translation probably lacking completeness.  
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Handshape   The way the hand and fingers are configured for sign formulation (one of the five parameters of a sign).  
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High Context   Generous detail and related information.  
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HLAA   Hearing Loss Association of America. Formally SHHH is a non-profit organization offering support "for consumers by consumers".  
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Home Signs   Non-standard signs or gestures, idosyncratic, developed by and used among one's family members within typically the same household; home signs vary from family to family.  
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Lexical Borrowing   Originally from another language buy adapted and accepted for standard signing use. AKA Loan Sign.  
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LOVE   Linguisics of Visual English. Transcribed by using a grammatical notation system developed by William C. Stokoe, Jr.  
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Low-Context   Succinctly addresses the matter at hand, offering limited or no detail or background information.  
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Mainstream   When a deaf attended a public school. Generally means integrated into prevailing group or society.  
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Message accuracy   Correctness and completeness of an interpreted message.  
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Message equivalence   Accuracy, plus tone, intent, significant environmental factors, etc.  
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Mode   Method, manner or way of behaving or doing something.  
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Oralism   Use and teaching of speech and speech-reading (rather than signed communication).  
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Pidgin   Two different languages blended (elements of both are present).  
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Prosody   Study of metrical structure of verse; a system of verse that includes syntax, lexical choices, and other linguistic elements particular to a language or language system.  
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Qualified Interpreter (ADA)   "An interpreter who is able to interpret effectively, accurately and impartially both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized vocabulary".  
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Rhetorical Questions   A prosodic element of both English and ASL; however, used differently in each language. Generally, a question not requiring an answer from the other person because it will be answered by the speaker.  
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SEE1   See Essential English. Coding system in which intialized signs are used heavily as are English grammatical markers (-ing, -ed, -ment, etc). Conceptually accurate signing is not emphasized (ex: BUTTERFLY is signed BUTTER and FLY).  
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SEE2   Sign Exact English. A coding system in which intialized signs are used heavily and uses conceptually accurate signs for English compound words.  
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Sign Negotiation (Neologism or Protologism)   Interpreter and consumer agree to temporaily use a "sign" coined ad hoc, for context-specific use.  
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Signing space   Signs are produced within roughly a two-foot square space in front of the signer.  
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Sight Interpretation   "On sight" interpretation of written source text - in real-time as seen for the first time by the interpreter.  
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SPP   Standard Practice Papers. Various papers published by RID that offer practice standards related to the performance and use of sign languge interpretation pracitioners.  
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Tactile Interpeting   Interpreting, via touch, from or into a spoken or signed language.  
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Team Interpreting   Interpreters working together during an interpreting assignment.  
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Text   Discourse, message, utterance, what is being signed, spoken or written.  
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Utterance   Something being expressed, a statement.  
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