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Being Understood

Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality
  • Kristin Snoddon
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2026
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Through a series of linked applied linguistics studies regarding the primacy of text, signing songs, the mediation practices of deaf interpreters and Caribbean deaf epistemologies of language and understanding, this book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing deaf people’s experiences of understanding and being understood.

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    Frontmatter

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    Dedication

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Foreword

    xi
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    Preface

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    Introduction: Understanding, Difference and Relationality in Methodology

    1
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  • Part 1: Linguistic Flourishing
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    1 Being a Deaf Scholar: Writing as Being

    23
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    2 Signing Songs and the Openings of Semiotic Repertoires

    39
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  • Part 2: Deaf Interpreters and Understanding
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    3 Sign Language Ideologies and the Ethics of Relationality

    61
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    4 Brokering Understanding: Deaf Interpreters’ Role and Practice

    83
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  • Part 3: Caribbean Deaf Epistemologies of Language and Understanding
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    5 A Phenomenology of Deaf People’s Experiences of Understanding and Music at Trinidad Carnival

    101
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    6 Toward a Caribbean Deaf Queer Phenomenology

    117
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    Conclusion

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    References

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    Index

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November 11, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781788921183
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172
https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788921183
eBook ISBN: 9781788921183
Keywords for this book
Bilingualism & multilingualism; Japan; Language teaching theory & methods
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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