[Linganth] Call for abstracts: Special issue in Sign Language Studies

[Lynn Hou]

Call for Abstracts


Special issue in *Sign Language Studies*

Theme: *Doing linguistic ethnography in signing communities*

Guest editors: Annelies Kusters, Lynn Hou


This special issue focuses on methodology when engaging in linguistic
ethnography for studying everyday sign language use in their wider social,
cultural and material contexts, in visual and tactile interactions with
deaf and deaf-blind people and their deaf, deaf-blind, protactile and
hearing interlocutors. In linguistics, much signed language research tend
to involve filming deaf people signing in staged situations, and most often
focusing on monologic or dialogic discourse. Linguistic ethnography expands
that approach to include and capture communication practices in a holistic,
dynamic way, including the study of naturally occurring interactions, as
well as metalinguistic reflection. Recent work has taken an ethnographic
approach to language used in diverse sociocultural settings, including
village / indigenous signed languages, multilingual and multimodal urban
contexts, family communication, educational institutions, and interpreting
practices among deaf, deaf-blind, protactile, and hearing people. The
analyses from these projects have expanded our understanding of how novel
communication practices cohere; how new sign languages emerge in families
and deaf-blind signing; how deaf, deafblind, and hearing people negotiate
communication with different modes of access to the environment, and how
experiences of these situations are qualified in metalinguistic discourse
(such as in language ideologies).

In this special issue, we seek submissions that explore linguistic
ethnography as an approach that can maximize these frameworks, and as such
contribute to our understanding of what linguistic ethnography can do.
These submissions would focus on research methods, describing and
evaluating ethnographic techniques such as participant observation,
participatory methods, working in research teams, and so on. Each article
will focus on one or more particular linguistic ethnographic case studies
and include examples of data that was gathered, reflecting on what
approaches were more successful or less successful and for whatever
reasons. They must also include reflection on researcher positionality and
how this positionality has shaped the research. Finally, the authors should
reflect on how their work contributes to relevant literature e.g. on
(linguistic) ethnography, and research methods in sign language and Deaf
Studies.


*Timeline:*

Deadline for abstracts: 22 February 2019

Response to authors: 1 March 2019

First drafts due from authors: 15 June 2019

Comments due from reviewers: 31 August 2019

Revised draft due: 15 November 2019

Publication: Summer 2020 issue



*Abstract guidelines:*

 In your abstract (max 150-200 words) please include your name, affiliation
if applicable, working title, a description of the methodology that was
used, case(s) that will be discussed, and (preliminary) conclusions. Please
send abstracts as an email attachment (in Word, not PDF) to both guest
editors:



Annelies Kusters (Heriot-Watt University), a.kusters <goog_1825931858>@
<goog_1825931858>hw.ac.uk

Lynn Hou (University of California, Santa Barbara),
lhou at linguistics.ucsb.edu

-- 
Lina Hou (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor of Linguistics

University of California, Santa Barbara
Situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the
Chumash people

Website: sites.google.com/view/linasigns
Zoom room: https://ucsb.zoom.us/my/lyshou
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