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To making decisions about what the deaf client would want interpreted. actually being able to hear the conversation), through SLIs indicated a variety of reasons for interpreting, or not interpreting, small talk, Office’ and to pick up on ‘conversations in passing’ which inform about issues such as ‘drinks or parties are being planned, someone’s leaving etc… the vital bits of information about work that can be gleaned by overhearing other’s conversations’ (Q18b: qr45). See it as being vital in enabling the deaf employee to ‘‘fit in’ socially with the hearing Organisations issues and social conversations’, as this provides access to the ‘wider issues and promotes understanding and greater inclusion’ (Q18b: qr11). Informal office interactions, stating that they ‘endeavour to interpret political/ As noted in section 5.2.1, SLIs are very aware of the importance of They want to know what you did from Friday evening until Monday morning etc!’ (Q19a: qr50). hello, nice weekend etc’ (Q19a: qr35), to informing the deafĮmployee that ‘when someone says did you have a good weekend that doesn’t mean Transactional talk as being a way of making sure that the client can fully understandĪll the subtleties and trivia of everyday office life. Viewed as being a form of cultural mediation, SLIs see the interpreting of non. Interaction, due to the fact that the majority of the staff in their work environmentĬould sign at a level that enabled casual conversation to take place without an SLI. Sometimes did so, whilst one SLI stated that they never interpreted this type of Interpreted informal conversations and ‘chitchat’. From the questionnaire responses, 30 SLIs stated that they regularly Interaction can contribute considerably to deaf employees’ integration into the
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As highlighted in Chapter Two, small talk, humour, and instances of less formal