Kadri Hein

Broschiertes Buch

Switching between Estonian Sign Language and Spoken Estonian

Functions and Factors Affecting Language Use among Deaf and Hearing Bimodal Bilinguals

Beschreibung

The central research question of the present study is What factors influence switching (code-switching and code-blending) between Estonian Sign Language and spoken Estonian among bimodal bilinguals (Emmorey et al 2005, 2008; Bishop and Hicks 2005) in a school environment? Deaf and hearing students and teachers participated in the study where data were collected from lessons, guided discussions, and a picture description task. The results indicated that bimodal bilinguals predominantly code-blend, i.e. simultaneously produce speech and signs. The Matrix Language (Myers-Scotton 1997) sometimes remained undetermined, as a few blends were produced with different word order in each language. The main functions of switching among the students were attracting the attention of the teacher, and emphasising a constituent in a clause, but they also switched to express themselves in an original way. In some utterances, it proved difficult to apply a single function to a switch, thus a sequential turn-by-turn analysis (Auer 1995) was employed. A deaf student s level of switching was influenced most by the hearing status of the interlocutor, and the interlocutor s amount of switching.

Autor

Kadri Hein obtained her PhD in Linguistics at Birkbeck, University of London in 2011. She is a teacher of deaf children at Tallinn Helen s School and a lecturer at Tallinn University. Kadri is a member of the Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics and the Estonian Association of Teachers of Deaf/Hearing Impaired Children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9783847339618
• ISBN-10: 3847339613
• Artikelnr.: 34902085