36.3458, Books: Being Understood: Snoddon (2025)

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Date: 11-Nov-2025
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Being Understood: Snoddon (2025)


Title: Being Understood
Subtitle: Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality
Series Title: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
           http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
Book URL:
https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781788921176

Author(s): Kristin Snoddon

Hbk ISBN 9781788921176 £99.95 / US$129.95 / €119.95
PDF ISBN 9781788921183 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00
EPUB ISBN 9781788921190 £20.00 / US$25.00 / €23.00

Abstract:

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.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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