CHI flashcards

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Consecutive interpreting

Oral rendering after the speaker pauses, typically used for dialogue, consent discussions, and short exchanges in healthcare encounters so accuracy and turn-taking are preserved.

Simultaneous interpreting

Rendering speech into the target language while the speaker continues, often whispered in healthcare settings; requires the speaker to accept some accuracy risk from overlap.

First-person interpreting

Rendering utterances as if the original speaker were talking directly, using 'I' and 'you' rather than reported speech, to preserve ownership and avoid altering the message.

Chuchotage

Whispered simultaneous interpreting delivered close to the listener's ear, used when a provider speaks continuously and a full pause for consecutive is impractical.

Role boundary

The interpreter's limit: do not answer questions for the patient, give advice, summarize, or edit content; redirect exchanges to the provider and interpret them faithfully.

Register matching

Reproducing the speaker's level of formality and technicality in the target language, neither upgrading plain language to jargon nor simplifying technical terms into vague paraphrases.

Clarification request

Asking the original speaker to explain an ambiguous or unknown utterance before rendering it, used instead of guessing at diagnoses, medications, doses, or numbers.

Number and dose fidelity

Rendering figures, dosages, frequencies, and dates exactly as stated and repeating them back for confirmation, never rounding, converting, or approximating values.

Paralinguistic transfer

Conveying tone, emotion, hesitation, and emphasis in the target language rather than neutralizing distress or adding reassurance the speaker did not express.

Message completeness

Interpreting all utterances in the encounter, including asides and small talk, because omissions can carry clinical or legal meaning; flag any intentional omission.

Positioning and eye contact

Placing yourself where both parties' faces and lips are visible and using eye contact for turn-taking cues, supporting accurate reception and natural exchange.

Mode selection

Choosing consecutive, simultaneous, or sight translation based on setting, speaker pace, text length, and accuracy requirements, rather than habit or convenience.

Interpreter neutrality

Maintaining an impartial stance that conveys each party's message without advocacy, side commentary, or alignment with either the provider or the patient.

Cultural clarification

Explaining a cultural concept or practice only when needed for understanding, then returning to interpreting the exchange, without becoming a cultural spokesperson.

Turn-taking management

Signaling speakers to pause at phrase or sentence boundaries so the interpreter can render accurately, using brief gestures or verbal cues without disrupting the encounter.

Unknown-term handling

When a term is unfamiliar, ask the speaker to define or spell it, then render the meaning; never substitute a guess for a clinical or legal term.

Pre-encounter briefing

A brief exchange with the provider before the encounter to agree on seating, pacing, mode, and turn-taking, improving accuracy without altering the message.

Post-encounter debrief

A short review with the provider after the encounter to flag unclear content, terminology issues, or communication concerns, without disclosing information beyond what was interpreted.

Sight translation

Oral rendering of a written text in the target language performed on the spot, distinct from written translation and from interpreting spoken input.

Pre-reading scan

Reviewing the whole document for structure, headings, numbers, and unfamiliar terms before beginning oral rendition, rather than starting to read cold.

Chunking

Reading ahead in meaningful phrase units and rendering clause by clause, avoiding word-for-word output that produces ungrammatical target-language syntax.

Decimal separator ambiguity

The risk that a comma or period means different values across languages; state figures unambiguously rather than converting silently during sight translation.

Document completeness

Rendering all content in a document, including headers, footers, checkboxes, and instructions, and noting illegible or missing text instead of inventing content.

Sight translation pacing

Maintaining a steady oral pace with pauses at sentence or section boundaries so the listener can absorb content without losing their place.

Position indication

Telling the listener which section or paragraph you are rendering so they can follow the document and verify content as you speak.

Sight translation scope

Rendering the full text without summarizing, editorializing, or adding explanations; any commentary is delivered separately and clearly marked as the interpreter's.

Document translation

Producing a written target-language text from a written source, requiring accuracy of content, terminology, and formatting, distinct from oral sight translation.

Meaning-for-meaning fidelity

Translating sense rather than words while preserving negations, qualifiers, conditions, and warnings, since omissions or additions create clinical or legal risk.

Formatting preservation

Keeping layout, headings, tables, checkboxes, and item order so the translated document maps to the source, and noting any layout changes to the client.

Back-translation

Translating a target text back into the source language to check accuracy, used for high-risk content such as consent forms, instructions, and discharge summaries.

Proper-noun retention

Keeping names of people, institutions, and brand-name medications as in the source, transliterating only when required by target-language script conventions.

Terminology standardization

Using established target-language equivalents for medical terms and code sets; when none exists, using an accepted loanword or descriptive equivalent and documenting the choice.