Deaf Communities

Moriarty, Erin; Hou, Lynn

doi:10.1002/9781119780830.ch7

A New Companion to Linguistic Anthropology 2023

DOI: 10.1002/9781119780830.ch7

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Deaf Communities

Erin Moriarty¹,

Lynn Hou²

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Challenging the “norm”: a critical look at deaf-hearing comparison studies in research

Holcomb,

Hall,

Gardiner-Walsh

et al. 2024

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

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This study critically examines the biases and methodological shortcomings in studies comparing deaf and hearing populations, demonstrating their implications for both the reliability and ethics of research in deaf education. Upon reviewing the 20 most-cited deaf-hearing comparison studies, we identified recurring fallacies such as the presumption of hearing ideological biases, the use of heterogeneously small samples, and the misinterpretation of critical variables. Our research reveals a propensity to based conclusions based on the norms of white, hearing, monolingual English speakers. This dependence upholds eugenics ideas and scientific ableism, which reinforces current power dynamics that marginalize the epistemologies and lived experiences of deaf populations. Going forward, it will be imperative for deaf people to be included in meaningful roles in deaf-related research as active contributors who help define the whole research process. Without this shift, the research risks remaining detached from the very populations it seeks to understand.

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Challenging the “norm”: a critical look at deaf-hearing comparison studies in research

Holcomb,

Hall,

Gardiner-Walsh

et al. 2024

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

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Embodiment of sexuality by Israeli Sign Language signers and hearing Hebrew speakers

Stamp,

Ben Israel,

Eden

et al. 2024

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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Language is a key resource for speakers and signers to index different aspects of their social identities, such as their ethnicities and sexualities. Yet, for users of sign language – who exploit movements of the hands, face, head and torso for linguistic purposes – it is often assumed that any communicative movement of the body is part of a sign language rather than a general feature of the body's potential to communicate social meaning, shared by hearing and deaf individuals. In this study, we test this claim by comparing the movement features produced by gay and straight Israeli Sign Language signers to the gestural movements produced by gay and straight Hebrew speakers. The findings reveal that deaf gay signers and hearing gay gesturers exploit similar movements of the body. By incorporating the notion of embodiment into sign language sociolinguistics, we can better conceptualize the relationship between sign language and social identities.

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Deaf Communities

Cited by 2 publications

References 63 publications

Challenging the “norm”: a critical look at deaf-hearing comparison studies in research

Challenging the “norm”: a critical look at deaf-hearing comparison studies in research

Embodiment of sexuality by Israeli Sign Language signers and hearing Hebrew speakers

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