Interpretation

The powers in strong relationships are the foundation for understanding, realization, and revelation. Relationships are used to overcome and to build onto one’s self. People feel the need to be close to others. This need is followed by the given response of creation. The creation of a piece of art or the creation of a relationship fills the need to have a connection with the composer. The relationship between composer and each viewer is unique to the immediate viewing. The strength from these…

began interpreting the text allegorically and by interpreting the text allegorically they proposed many allegorical meanings unintended by the biblical authors (pg.5). Parables of the Gospels gave one example, which speaks of the New Testament interpretation of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Plummer says that “This story as an allegorical message of salvation, with the Good Samaritan is signifying Jesus”…

to me and said, “Zac, you have been running your station perfectly today.” Besides the original intent of this statement, metacommunication conveyed this statement into a couple of interpretations. My first interpretation was that throughout the whole shift, so far I have been working efficiently. My second interpretation of my manager’s statement towards me was that he has liked how I have been running my station so far that night. The other memorable moment of metacommunication to be was after…

Likewise, Hockey Scholar has changed my attitude toward engineering and math. Now, in the future, my change in attitude toward STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) will help my future in my career, which is American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, by giving me proper signing technique, overall knowledge of math,…

person’s opinions and interpretations of everyday events will vary based on how the information is perceived. These differences are especially noticed when reading and analyzing works of literature. Poems, for example, often lead to an audience with very different interpretations of the meaning being conveyed. Although Natasha Trethewey’s poem, “Artifact,” is a rather simply structured and straightforward poem, the connotations of the diction can cause a reader’s interpretation to be completely…

information given towards them differently. Some factors that alter the way that someone manipulates information are those such as culture, religion, age, and many others that a person is unconsciously thinking about when making any decision or interpretation. A quick example of what I just said, just to clarify any misunderstandings, can be found when a group of people is asked whether it’s okay to let people under 18 drive legally. The amount of information given is the same for everyone, but…

At a professional interpreter conference in 2013 a presenter stated, "The interpreter is the sole holder of all information in an interpreted encounter." The information that the interpreter holds is linked to the language and culture of the parties involved. Sociolinguistics is the study of how language interactions between members of social networks and between different social networks. This field also studies how language and culture are perceived by the interlocutors or the audience of the…

Advice for Interpreters: Timing Many people have said “in humor, timing is everything.” Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering (2011) test this theory to see if timing affects how people tell jokes and how those jokes are received by others. They examined if presenters paused or spoke faster when saying the punchline. Their findings for the pauses that occurred in a joke were longer at the beginning of the joke than the slight pause that happened before the punchline. Attardo and Pickering…

active audience, in which the audience interprets media content (people have different interpretations) through the different codes presented in the media. Interaction between people and media texts creates meaning due to the different interpretations in society based on an individual’s social identity. In society…

and learn about who God is. Likewise, I personally interpret Scripture in order to more deeply grow in my relationship with Christ. As exemplified through the interpretation of Ephesians 5:22-24 and Matthew 5:27-30, my personal analysis of Scripture is to know more about who God is and what He has to say. In essence, my original interpretation of Ephesians 5:22-24 is fundamentally about wives being in submission to their husbands so as to replicate the church being in submission to Christ. For…