Being Understood

Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78892-117-6
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, 157 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Experiences of not understanding and not being understood during interactions are a pervasive aspect of life for many deaf people, so ensuring understanding becomes a moral imperative in deaf worlds and part of deaf ontologies. Through a series of linked applied linguistics studies regarding the primacy of text, signing songs, the mediation practices of deaf interpreters and Caribbean deaf epistemologies of language and understanding, this book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing deaf people’s experiences of understanding and being understood. These are grounded in a Continental philosophy of language and qualitative methods including autoethnography, interpretative interviews and phenomenology. The book explores issues surrounding linguistic and semiotic repertoires; access and affordances; orientation, sociality and power; and mediated communication. Ultimately, it reveals both the workings of epistemic injustice related to deaf signers and ways of understanding and being understood that extend beyond named languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Snoddon, Kristin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Series Editors’ Preface

Introduction: Understanding, Difference and Relationality in Methodology

Part 1: Linguistic Flourishing

Chapter 1. Being a Deaf Scholar: Writing as Being

Chapter 2. Signing Songs and the Openings of Semiotic Repertoires

Part 2: Deaf Interpreters and Understanding

Chapter 3. Sign Language Ideologies and the Ethics of Relationality

Chapter 4. Brokering Understanding: Deaf Interpreters’ Role and Practice

Part 3: Caribbean Deaf Epistemologies of Language and Understanding

Chapter 5. A Phenomenology of Deaf People’s Experiences of Understanding and Music at Trinidad Carnival

Chapter 6. Toward a Caribbean Deaf Queer Phenomenology

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Snoddon, Kristin
Kristin Snoddon is an Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education (with Joanne C. Weber, Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (with Annelies Kusters, Mara Green and Erin Moriarty, Mouton De Gruyter, 2020).

Kristin Snoddon is a Professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education (with Joanne C. Weber, Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (with Annelies Kusters, Mara Green and Erin Moriarty, Mouton De Gruyter, 2020).