Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Preface xiii
7. Introduction: Understanding, Difference and Relationality in Methodology 1
8. Part 1: Linguistic Flourishing
9. 1 Being a Deaf Scholar: Writing as Being 23
10. 2 Signing Songs and the Openings of Semiotic Repertoires 39
11. Part 2: Deaf Interpreters and Understanding
12. 3 Sign Language Ideologies and the Ethics of Relationality 61
13. 4 Brokering Understanding: Deaf Interpreters’ Role and Practice 83
14. Part 3: Caribbean Deaf Epistemologies of Language and Understanding
15. 5 A Phenomenology of Deaf People’s Experiences of Understanding and Music at Trinidad Carnival 101
16. 6 Toward a Caribbean Deaf Queer Phenomenology 117
17. Conclusion 135
18. References 138
19. Index 154