Sign Language Interpreters: Excercising Status Agility to Achieve Social Balance
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Wing examines the constructs of status, the rules and principles of status navigation, and offers insight into how today’s interpreter can incorporate an increased level of status agility into their work to be more successful Presented at Streetleverage - Live 2015 in Boston www.streetleverage.com
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- 1. #OurTurn Status Transactions: The “It” Factor in Sign Language Interpreting? Wing Butler http://www.streetleverage.com/status-transactions-the-it-factor-in-sign- language-interpreting/
- 2. #OurTurn 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
- 4. #OurTurn 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”
- 5. #OurTurn You Are Here Status: The relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something.
- 6. #OurTurn You Are Here Status: The relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something.
- 8. #OurTurn Humility: Acceptance of unseen systems and dynamics H2
- 9. #OurTurn Frederick M. Alexander 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”
- 10. #OurTurn Generosity: Acceptance that one’s awareness has inaccuracies H2 G
- 11. #OurTurn Keith Johnstone RECIPROCITY 3 – “Every inflection & movement implies a status and that no action is due to chance or really motiveless”
- 12. #OurTurn Reciprocity: We choose to move in a way that doesn’t widen status gaps, and closer if we can. H2 G R
- 13. #OurTurn IT Factor Formula Humility2 + Generosity x Reciprocity = Status Agility H2 G R+ x
- 14. #OurTurn Me Dad
- 15. #OurTurn Status Gaps Shared Privilege H2 + G x R = SA
- 16. #OurTurn Comedian: Is paid to lower his own or other people’s status.
- 18. #OurTurn 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
- 19. #OurTurn Status Conflicts in Interpreting Dynamics High Status (Dominant) • Doctor • Employer • Supervisor • Police • Friend • Parent Low Status (Submissive) • Patient • Employee • Team Member • Civilian • Friend • Child
- 20. #OurTurn What meta behaviors (signals) are in direct conflict in [insert interpreting situation]?
- 21. #OurTurn
Editor's Notes
- Opportunity: 1- Favorable combination of circumstances 2- Chance for advancement I’d like to talk about Status Transactions today [ASL: Levels, agreement, acceptance…]
- [Banker Story] - That day my dad changed. He no longer had the will to fight.
- My Dad loved history. He’d tell me about (pilgrims; invention of train, phone, C-I-V-I-L-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N) Ex: Keys at Dealership Realizations: 1 – My dad was burdened with Macro, Meso, Micro Aggressions 2 –Meta level 3- Evolutionary Scientist say it’s a biology thing: To keep the peace we have unwritten rules (Ducks)
- The status that we’re talking about here has mostly to do with action…what you do to another human, and what they do to you. We define “status” as your beliefs about your own value-to-the-pack, reflected in your behavior towards the rest of the pack. The concept of value is very important. The human brain is extremely good at both ascertaining meaning and ascribing value, and once it assigns value to the world, it will then make you seek out that which is most valuable, so you can associate yourself with it. If someone is going up, someone else is going down. If I brag about something I just won, I raise my status and lower that of the people listening to me. If someone responds with, “Oh yeah, I’ve won five of those,” then they have raised their own status and lowered mine. I don’t have to just focus on raising my own status overtly; I can try to lower yours, and that will raise mine Since status is about social value, we typically look to the person from whom everyone is taking their cues. Sometimes it’s the one telling funny stories and being entertaining. Sometimes it’s the ‘founder of the feast’, as in the eldest or wealthiest person in the room. It will always be the one who’s bringing the most value to the situation, whatever that group happens to value most
- While taking a week long training. Alan Champion, Stephanie Feyne and Candace Broecker-Penn they introduced me to the Alexander Technique, A form of education by Frederick Alexander in the early 1900s that is applied to overcome reactive, habitual limitations in movement and thinking.
- Example of driving in the fog
- Status Agility is the ability to move between bias
- Deaf Comedians Interpreters caught on TV!