Understanding Deafhood: In Search of Its Meanings

Kusters, Annelies; Meulder, Maartje De

doi:10.1353/aad.2013.0004

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“…Perhaps this orientation is an unconscious result of seeking to apply to deaf people who sign the approach of 'see the person not the disability' (EEA, 2015;SCOPE, 2015) or 'look past not at disability' (Helbig, 2014). However, from many deaf people's perspectives such adages are irrelevant because the person who is deaf cannot be separated from the identity inscribed through their embodied language use (Kusters & De Meulder, 2013;Napier & Leeson, 2016;Young & Temple, 2014), thus ontologically reconnecting language and the body (but not voice) as the site of presence and the assertion of being. By hearing colleagues seeking to see past the technology of the interpreter, or the socially awkward confusions of direct communication, they are in fact indirectly reproducing that sense of distance that they are seeking to resist.…”

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Hearing people perceiving deaf people through sign language interpreters at work: on the loss of self through interpreted communication

Young

Oram

Napier

2019

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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This article addresses the impact on occupational relations of mediated communication through a sign language interpreter from the perspective of hearing people who do not sign but who work alongside deaf signers in the workplace. Based on a phenomenological analysis of eight semi-structured interviews, findings address the influence of phonocentrism on working practice between deaf and hearing people. In particular, the implications of the inscription of identity and presence through an embodied language are discussed. The consequences of failure to acknowledge the interpreter as a contingent practice for all, not just the deaf person, are examined. The findings have implications for the recognition and promotion of deaf agency and talent in the 'hearing' work place and extend understandings of structural influences on workplace discriminations to include those of interpreted communication.

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Hearing people perceiving deaf people through sign language interpreters at work: on the loss of self through interpreted communication

Young

Oram

Napier

2019

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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“…For De Clerck (2017), to be deaf requires participation and growth with other deaf people in community through which deaf culture is a process of shared constitutive learning to which all deaf people might contribute and through which it is possible to experience and achieve 'deaf flourishing'. However, as Kusters and De Meulder (2013) point out, foregrounding the ontological aspects of contemporary deaf cultural studies also requires fundamental attention to the everyday and the practical realities of living as a deaf person alongside recognition of the vast heterogeneity of deaf people's individual choices and intersecting identities. They stop short, however, of including within that analysis the relational impacts of sign language interpreters in the everyday lives of deaf people alongside other 'technologies' such as amplification and cochlear implants and the use, by some culturally deaf people, of spoken language too.…”

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The translated deaf self, ontological (in)security and deaf culture

2019

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In this article, we posit and explore the concept of 'the translated deaf self', tentatively defined as: 'the socio-cultural impact for deaf sign language users of multiple, regular, lifelong experiences of being encountered by others and inter-subjectively known in a translated form, i.e. through sign language interpreters'. Regarding translation as both linguistic and non-linguistic, we explore the translated deaf self in terms of ontological (in)security in the context of phonocentrism, demonstrating how the recursive dynamics of structure-agency, within and through which the self is constituted, are impacted by the contingency of being interpreted. We show how such impacts on self, identity and agency are not equivalent to the hearing non-signing actors who also participate in relational encounters through sign language interpreters. The extent to which the shared experience of the translated deaf self may or may not be considered constitutive of (deaf) culture is examined with reference to strategies of linguistic resistances and personal empowerment evident in our data but not universally available or necessarily considered desirable from a collective perspective. Finally, we reflect on how to breakdown the exclusive and excluding nature of considerations such as these by breaking free of the written/signed signifier. KEYWORDSSign language interpreting; deaf culture; ontological security; phonocentrism; non-linguistic translation CONTACT Alys Young alys.young@manchester.ac.uk,

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“…Although they may not be able to use hearing to communicate, their primary use of a language other than ASL distinguishes them from the culture of the Deaf. They may interact within the Deaf community, but may be viewed somewhat as an accepted close outsider (Kusters & De Meulder, 2013).…”

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Deaf: A Concept Analysis From a Cultural Perspective Using the Wilson Method of Concept Analysis Development

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The purpose of this article is to provide an analysis of the concept Deaf to increase health care provider (HCP) understanding from a cultural perspective. Deaf signers, people with hearing loss who communicate primarily in American Sign Language (ASL), generally define the term Deaf as a cultural heritage. In the health care setting, the term deaf is most often defined as a pathological condition requiring medical intervention. When HCPs are unaware that there are both cultural and pathological views of hearing loss, significant barriers may exist between the HCP and the Deaf individual. The concept of Deaf is analyzed using the Wilsonian method. Essential elements of the concept "Deaf" from a cultural perspective include a personal choice to communicate primarily in ASL and identify with the Deaf community. Resources for HCPs are needed to quickly identify Deaf signers and provide appropriate communication.

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Understanding Deafhood: In Search of Its Meanings

Cited by 43 publications

References 16 publications

Hearing people perceiving deaf people through sign language interpreters at work: on the loss of self through interpreted communication

Hearing people perceiving deaf people through sign language interpreters at work: on the loss of self through interpreted communication

The translated deaf self, ontological (in)security and deaf culture

Deaf: A Concept Analysis From a Cultural Perspective Using the Wilson Method of Concept Analysis Development

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