Full Description
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.
Contents
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
