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Who's Speaking Whose Language? A Study Of Contact Signing Between Deaf And Hearing Co-Workers, Marilyn K. Plumlee
Who's Speaking Whose Language? A Study Of Contact Signing Between Deaf And Hearing Co-Workers, Marilyn K. Plumlee
Theses and Dissertations
This study documents signed communication between a deaf woman and five hearing co-workers who have worked together for periods ranging from two and a half to twenty-three years.
The study has two primary foci:
(1) to describe the linguistic features observed during contact signing between deaf and hearing interlocutors, all fluent in English, who communicate in a manual, visual channel, and
(2) to identify the dynamics affecting the linguistic choices made by both the hearing and deaf signers during contact signing.
The primary data base for this study were videotaped recordings of conversational dyads consisting of the deaf woman and …