Participation, Time, Effort and Speech Disability Justice

Kasnitz, Devva; Block, Pamela

doi:10.1002/9781118702819.ch14

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“…His partners contribute because they consider him "someone who is trying to say something relevant," an orientation that is fundamentally "moral" in nature (106). Kasnitz and Block (2012) similarly argue that communicating with persons with speech disabilities requires "effort" and "willingness." 16…”

Section: The Ethics Of Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal

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2022

American Anthropologist

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This article examines interactions between deaf and hearing people in Nepal that are conducted in natural sign, a mode of signed communication involving relatively small repertoires of conventional signs complemented by iconic and indexical strategies. Natural sign is an exemplary case for unpacking the claim that ethics is not only intrinsic to linguistic interaction but also grounds its very possibility. While this is ultimately true for all language use, natural sign heightens this quality and its consequences, in terms of both interaction (whether people understand) and analysis (how scholars understand whether people understand). Bringing together Nepali Sign Language users’ insights with academic theories of interaction, pragmatics, and semiotics, this article demonstrates the high stakes for deaf natural signers of being rendered intelligible or unintelligible by the “ordinary” ethical actions of their interlocutors.

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Section: The Ethics Of Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The eye and the other: Language and ethics in deaf Nepal

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2022

American Anthropologist

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“… 17 The kind of patience required to communicate this way is also reminiscent of the ‘effort’ necessary to communicate with persons with speech disabilities (Kasnitz & Block 2012). …”

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Building the tower of Babel: International Sign, linguistic commensuration, and moral orientation

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2014

Lang. Soc.

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This article examines International Sign (IS), a mode of signed cross-linguistic communication, in the context of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). I contend that the WFD General Assembly's language policy, which bans interpreters and requires that delegates use IS, formalizes the commonsense deaf notion that what is particular about deaf people is their capacity for connecting across differences, rooted in and materialized through the ability to use sign across language boundaries. While such an ability has been explained primarily in terms of the affordances of the visual-gestural modality, this article foregrounds and theorizes the irreducibly relational dimensions of linguistic commensuration. I argue that communicating in IS relies on and produces mutual moral orientation among signers, and that ultimately, it is the labor involved in using IS that deaf people value and that the WFD General Assembly institutionalizes. (International Sign, sign language, deaf, linguistic commensuration, moral orientation)*

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