[Linganth] Kristin Snoddon today on the blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP blog, Kristin Snoddon discusses her book, *Being
Understood: Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality.
Multilingual Matters *with Tsung-Lun Alan Wan.
www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: Experiences of not understanding and not being understood
during interactions are a pervasive aspect of life for many deaf people, so
ensuring understanding becomes a moral imperative in deaf worlds and part
of deaf ontologies. 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. These are grounded in a Continental philosophy of language and
qualitative methods including autoethnography, interpretative interviews
and phenomenology. The book explores issues surrounding linguistic and
semiotic repertoires; access and affordances; orientation, sociality and
power; and mediated communication. Ultimately, it reveals both the workings
of epistemic injustice related to deaf signers and ways of understanding
and being understood that extend beyond named languages.
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