2014
DOI: 10.1353/pmc.2014.0020
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Crippled Speech

Abstract: QuietBob97 is an alaryngeal speaker who foregrounds prosthetic voices in a series of sound-only YouTube videos. With performances designed to retrain a listener’s ear for different voices, QuietBob aspires to dismantle the stigma of un-naturalness that places the humanness of his voice (and his self) in question. This essay reads QuietBob’s performative moves to develop a theory of crippled speech – the representational crippling of speech and the concomitant desubjectification that attends bodies of vocal dif… Show more

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“…Those markers are subsequently used as rationale for exclusion. As QuietBob, a participant in Marshall (2014) who uses alaryngeal technology to speak says, his speech isn't disabled but people who have normative hearing interpret it as disabled. Assumptions that a speaker is competent only if "fully endowed with abilities" is disabling and more so in a society where "the cognitive life of the individual" is its primary focus.…”
Section: Crip Speechmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Those markers are subsequently used as rationale for exclusion. As QuietBob, a participant in Marshall (2014) who uses alaryngeal technology to speak says, his speech isn't disabled but people who have normative hearing interpret it as disabled. Assumptions that a speaker is competent only if "fully endowed with abilities" is disabling and more so in a society where "the cognitive life of the individual" is its primary focus.…”
Section: Crip Speechmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Yet Marshall (2014) complains that too much focus is given on the deaf experiences of crippled speech, and not non-deaf experiences being speech divergent. The underlying assumption of Marshall's point is that deaf people are expected to have crippled speech.…”
Section: Crip Speechmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Denn die Äußerungen der Protagonistin bleiben unverständlich, auch wenn deren möglicher Sinn -die Entdeckung der Puppe und das Spiel mit ihr -offensichtlich erscheinen mag. 3 Somit sind wir hier mit einer filmischen Produktion von "crippled speech"(Marshall 2014) konfrontiert, die durch verbale Artikulation und das Hören zugleich entsteht.4 Das Mädchen Denisa, ihre verbalen Äußerungen und ihr Handeln mit der Kamera werden zum Ausgangspunkt einer wechselseitigen Beziehungsarbeit, die den 2 Die Bezeichnung "taub" generiert in der betreffenden Szene eine Form von Ausschluss, ist aber nicht generell in dieser Weise festgeschrieben. Zu Differenzierungen und Verwendung des Begriffs durch Gehörlose vgl.…”
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“…3 Eine Hörbehinderung ist in der Regel mit einem verlangsamten Sprachlernprozess verbunden.Denisas Schwerhörigkeit wurde erst spät diagnostiziert, weshalb sie kein Romanes spricht. 4Marshall (2014) führt dazu aus: "[...] crippled speech is understood through a particular mode of listening and hearing[...] Crippled speech is thus brought into being by the disabling environment created by normative hearing. To cripple speech is a technology of power that, when applied, marks vocal difference, whether that difference is perceived as racialized timbre, queered inflection, deaf accent, or dystonic slurring.…”
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