From compensation to integration: Effects of the pro-tactile movement on the sublexical structure of Tactile American Sign Language

Edwards, Terra

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.05.005

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“…If this is the case, then infrastructure surely plays a role in shaping, reinforcing, and responding to those patterns. In prior research, I have shown how new articulatory and perceptual affordances revealed themselves to DeafBlind people in Seattle when new participant frameworks and patterns in interaction began to emerge (Edwards , ). This research suggests that additional pressures are exerted on those channels of transmission by larger infrastructural dynamics.…”

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“… In prior work, I have argued that social and interactional changes have led DeafBlind people to use the so‐called tactile channel in new ways, or, in the terms developed here, to perceive new affordances in that channel (Edwards , ). In particular, protactile people make far greater use of the proprioceptive sense than they did prior to the protactile movement (Edwards 2014a, 2014b).…”

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“… This is also one of the reasons why there are no places of articulation in visual signed languages on the back of the addressee, despite the fact that it would be physically possible (see Edwards ). People don't do that because they haven't done it in the past. …”

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“…Protactile DeafBlind people in Seattle addressed these questions by re-channeling 3 themselves to their environment. They turned away from interactional patterns organized along visual lines and sought out new, tactile modes of engagement (Edwards 2014b). Protactile DeafBlind people in Washington, DC, have been in direct and relatively sustained contact with the Seattle community and have acquired many of their practices.…”

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Re‐Channeling Language: The Mutual Restructuring of Language and Infrastructure among DeafBlind People at Gallaudet University

Edwards

2018

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article is concerned with the re‐channeling of language. It asks: what role does the material environment play in turning a visual language into a tactile language? To pursue that question, I examine language and infrastructure among DeafBlind people at Gallaudet University. Since 2005, aspects of the local urban landscape have been designed with the practices of Deaf people in mind. Recently, under the influence of the protactile movement, attention has turned to the tactile dimensions of design. As advisors, practitioners, and consultants contributing to these efforts, DeafBlind people seek not only to broaden the range of sensory channels linking them to their environment, but also to create environments that reinforce those connections across linguistic, sensory, and environmental domains. Drawing on the notion of “channel” as it has been applied and developed in linguistic anthropology and related fields, I argue that the re‐channeling of language among DeafBlind people at Gallaudet implicates channels of transmission. It cannot, however, be reduced to an effect of their affordances. Rather, the signer's perceptions of what is possible in communication are shaped by more general perceptions of what is possible in life, and what is possible in life depends on infrastructure.

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Re‐Channeling Language: The Mutual Restructuring of Language and Infrastructure among DeafBlind People at Gallaudet University

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2018

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…The current study also focuses on these types of signs, which we call depicting signs, and agree that their meanings emerge from the grounded contexts within which they are produced. In another anthropologically oriented study, Edwards (2014) discusses how deafblind signers in Seattle have responded to the pro-tactile movement by developing a tactile habitus, which has led to linguistic changes to Tactile American Sign Language.…”

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Co-forming real space blends in tactile signed language dialogues

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Raanes

Ferrara

2015

Cognitive Linguistics

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This article reports on a linguistic study examining the use of real space blending in the tactile signed languages of Norwegian and Swedish signers who are both deaf and blind. Tactile signed languages are typically produced by interactants in contact with each other's hands while signing. Of particular interest to this study are utterances which not only consist of the signer producing signs with his or her own hands (or other body parts), but which also recruit the other interactant's hands (or another body part). These utterances, although perhaps less frequent, are co-constructed, in a very real sense, and they illustrate meaning construction during emerging, embodied discourse. Here, we analyze several examples of these types of utterances from a cognitive linguistic and cognitive semiotic perspective to explore how interactants prompt meaning construction through touch and the involvement of each other's bodies during a particular type of co-regulation.

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