Being Understood

Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality

AvKristin Snoddon

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-11
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Antal sidor:157
Förlag:Multilingual Matters
ISBN:9781788921176

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Mer om författaren

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).

Recensioner i media

What does it mean to be understood as a deaf person? Kristin Snoddon asks from the borderlands of lived experience: deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing people as writers, song signers, interpreters, dancers, musicians. By illuminating deaf worlds of (not) understanding and (not) being understood, layers of alienation and shame are reshaped into sites of linguistic flourishing.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsForewordSeries Editors’ PrefaceIntroduction: Understanding, Difference and Relationality in MethodologyPart 1: Linguistic FlourishingChapter 1. Being a Deaf Scholar: Writing as BeingChapter 2. Signing Songs and the Openings of Semiotic RepertoiresPart 2: Deaf Interpreters and UnderstandingChapter 3. Sign Language Ideologies and the Ethics of RelationalityChapter 4. Brokering Understanding: Deaf Interpreters’ Role and PracticePart 3: Caribbean Deaf Epistemologies of Language and UnderstandingChapter 5. A Phenomenology of Deaf People’s Experiences of Understanding and Music at Trinidad CarnivalChapter 6. Toward a Caribbean Deaf Queer PhenomenologyConclusionReferencesIndex