Profession sign language interpreter

Sign language interpreters understand and convert sign language into spoken language and vice versa. They maintain the nuances and the stress of the message in the recipient language.

Personality Type

• Investigative / Conventional
• Artistic / Social

Knowledge

• Hearing disability

  Impairment of the ability to discern and process sounds naturally.

• Grammar

  The set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language.

• Sign language

  A system of communication using visual gestures and signs, used by hearing impaired individuals.  

• Communication related to hearing impairment

  The phonologic, morphologic and syntactic aspects and characteristics of human communication for individuals affected by hearing impairment.

• Semantics

  The branch of linguistics that studies meaning; it analyses of words, phrases, signs, and symbols and the relation between them.

• Linguistics

  The scientific study of language and its three aspects, language form, language meaning, and language in context.

Skills

• Translate language concepts

  Translate one language into another language. Match words and expressions with their corresponding brothers in other languages, while making sure that the message and nuances of the original text are preserved.

• Preserve original text

  Translate texts without adding, changing or omitting anything. Make sure the original message is conveyed. Don't express your own feelings and opinions.

• Translate texts

  Translate text from one language to another, conserving the meaning and the nuances of the original text, without adding, changing or omitting anything and avoiding the expression of personal feelings and opinions.

• Speak different languages

  Master foreign languages to be able to communicate in one or more foreign languages.

• Show intercultural awareness

  Show sensibility towards cultural differences by taking actions which facilitate positive interaction between international organisations, between groups or individuals of different cultures, and to promote integration in a community.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB