Erika Hoffmann‐dilloway
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 132467 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Erika Hoffmann‐dilloway |
| NOMBRES | Erika |
| APELLIDO | Hoffmann‐dilloway |
| FIRMA | DILLOWAY E H |
| AFILIACIONES | Oberlin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6435-1940 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
How Did We Meet
This comic-format article details a 2024 workshop that the authors held in Nepal, in which Nepali, US, and Chinese writers and artists teamed up to create collaborative, nonfiction, research-based comics. Participants' research focused on "everyday life" in the Nepali city of Patan and was grounded in open-ended ethnographic interviews that each pair conducted with locals. This article draws on the events and output of the workshop to consider th…
Sign Languages
Ethnographic studies of sign languages illuminate and complicate the ways in which the category of sign language is differentiated from other categories, including the categories of language and non-language, different types of sign languages, and signed versus spoken languages. These studies also highlight how sign language ideologies emerge in particular contexts, methods, and interpretations of data. An ethics of nonnormative communication is …
Ordering burgers, reordering relations
This article analyzes gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis to argue that local understandings of the consequences of these engagements make visible ways of ideologizing gesture that may be obscured by the gestural typologies widely used by scholars. In Nepal, d/Deafness is associated with ritual pollution that can be shared across persons. Consequently, the use of gesture in a communicative interaction can both presuppose the …
Deafmum
Annabelle Xerri, a Maltese Deaf activist, and Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, a hearing American anthropologist, analyze Annabelle’s social media posts detailing how she navigates sensory and linguistic asymmetries between herself and her hearing children. These posts are part of a larger activist effort to ensure that d/Deaf children in Malta are provided access to sign language. We situate these social media posts in the broader moment in which her ac…
Shadows and Mirrors
In introducing the concept of "shadow conversations," Judith T. Irvine (1996) sharpened our analytical understanding of instances in which conjectures about past and future moments in a chain of discourse events inform the distribution of participant roles in an unfolding interaction. Expanding upon this notion, this article considers how conversations that did or will not occur-or are imagined as having not occurred-can equally function as shado…
Judith T. Irvine and the Social Life of Scholarship
Deaf Language
Scholarly and popular perspectives concerning both the nature of deafness and of language vary across social and cultural contexts. The situated, contingent, and mutually constitutive nature of such concepts are consequential for the lived experience of deaf persons and for theories of language broadly. Linguistic anthropologists have focused on ethnographically detailing how deaf people navigate and generate such language ideologies
Figure (of Personhood) Drawing
This article explores how the affordances of pictorial representations of sign language forms (as enacted by illustrated signers) impact institutional processes of enskillment to sign language use. First, I attend to the participation framework roles such images inhabit in processes through which deaf teachers work to socialize novice signers to control the viewpoint reversals fundamental to local signing practices. I then explore how novice sign…
Feeling your own (or someone else's) face
Linguistic Anthropology in 2017
In this review, I discuss recent works that embody Monica Heller's (2017, 12) assertion that anthropology is about "imagining alternative worlds." In the first section, "Presence(s), Contact(s), and their Alternatives," I focus on work that refines our analytical grasp of the semiotic processes underlying past, current, and projected realities, possibilities, and engagements. The second section, "Shifting Political Economies," deals with publicat…
(Don’t) Write My Lips
Perceptions of boundaries between communicative codes and the modalities through which they are produced and perceived are mediated by social actors’ particular communicative repertoires and histories. I focus in particular on how the affordances of SignWriting (SW), a writing system for sign languages that has been adapted in Germany to additionally inscribe the physical movements by which spoken languages are produced, reveal and affect users’ …
Writing the smile
Lending a hand
Since forming contacts with international Deaf associations promoting an ethnolinguistic model of Deafness, members of Nepal's Deaf associations define Deafness by competence in Nepali Sign Language rather than audiological status. By analyzing the ideological and interactional processes through which homesigners are incorporated into Nepali Deaf social life, this article explores the effects of local beliefs about the nature of language, personh…
Many Names for Mother
In Nepal d/Deafness1 has commonly been interpreted as the result of the affected person's bad karma. As a result, families have often worked to render d/Deafness invisible, by preventing non-hearin
Metasemiotic Regimentation in the Standardization of Nepali Sign Language
Both the linguistic forms attended to and the ways in which they are linked to the social vary within and across language standardization projects. In addition, it cannot be assumed that people will notice the same indexical connections between linguistic forms and social structures or rationalize them in the same ways. An analysis of the project to standardize Nepali Sign Language highlights the fact that it is therefore necessary to account for…
Metasemiotic Regimentation in the Standardization of Nepali Sign Language
Both the linguistic forms attended to and the ways in which they are linked to the social vary within and across language standardization projects. In addition, it cannot be assumed that people will notice the same indexical connections between linguistic forms and social structures or rationalize them in the same ways. An analysis of the project to standardize Nepali Sign Language highlights the fact that it is therefore necessary to account for…
Lending a hand
Since forming contacts with international Deaf associations promoting an ethnolinguistic model of Deafness, members of Nepal's Deaf associations define Deafness by competence in Nepali Sign Language rather than audiological status. By analyzing the ideological and interactional processes through which homesigners are incorporated into Nepali Deaf social life, this article explores the effects of local beliefs about the nature of language, personh…
Many Names for Mother
In Nepal d/Deafness1 has commonly been interpreted as the result of the affected person's bad karma. As a result, families have often worked to render d/Deafness invisible, by preventing non-hearin
Figure (of Personhood) Drawing
This article explores how the affordances of pictorial representations of sign language forms (as enacted by illustrated signers) impact institutional processes of enskillment to sign language use. First, I attend to the participation framework roles such images inhabit in processes through which deaf teachers work to socialize novice signers to control the viewpoint reversals fundamental to local signing practices. I then explore how novice sign…
Feeling your own (or someone else's) face
(Don’t) Write My Lips
Perceptions of boundaries between communicative codes and the modalities through which they are produced and perceived are mediated by social actors’ particular communicative repertoires and histories. I focus in particular on how the affordances of SignWriting (SW), a writing system for sign languages that has been adapted in Germany to additionally inscribe the physical movements by which spoken languages are produced, reveal and affect users’ …
Writing the smile
Judith T. Irvine and the Social Life of Scholarship
Shadows and Mirrors
In introducing the concept of "shadow conversations," Judith T. Irvine (1996) sharpened our analytical understanding of instances in which conjectures about past and future moments in a chain of discourse events inform the distribution of participant roles in an unfolding interaction. Expanding upon this notion, this article considers how conversations that did or will not occur-or are imagined as having not occurred-can equally function as shado…
Linguistic Anthropology in 2017
In this review, I discuss recent works that embody Monica Heller's (2017, 12) assertion that anthropology is about "imagining alternative worlds." In the first section, "Presence(s), Contact(s), and their Alternatives," I focus on work that refines our analytical grasp of the semiotic processes underlying past, current, and projected realities, possibilities, and engagements. The second section, "Shifting Political Economies," deals with publicat…
Metasemiotic Regimentation in the Standardization of Nepali Sign Language
Both the linguistic forms attended to and the ways in which they are linked to the social vary within and across language standardization projects. In addition, it cannot be assumed that people will notice the same indexical connections between linguistic forms and social structures or rationalize them in the same ways. An analysis of the project to standardize Nepali Sign Language highlights the fact that it is therefore necessary to account for…
Many Names for Mother
In Nepal d/Deafness1 has commonly been interpreted as the result of the affected person's bad karma. As a result, families have often worked to render d/Deafness invisible, by preventing non-hearin
Writing the smile
Lending a hand
Since forming contacts with international Deaf associations promoting an ethnolinguistic model of Deafness, members of Nepal's Deaf associations define Deafness by competence in Nepali Sign Language rather than audiological status. By analyzing the ideological and interactional processes through which homesigners are incorporated into Nepali Deaf social life, this article explores the effects of local beliefs about the nature of language, personh…
(Don’t) Write My Lips
Perceptions of boundaries between communicative codes and the modalities through which they are produced and perceived are mediated by social actors’ particular communicative repertoires and histories. I focus in particular on how the affordances of SignWriting (SW), a writing system for sign languages that has been adapted in Germany to additionally inscribe the physical movements by which spoken languages are produced, reveal and affect users’ …
Feeling your own (or someone else's) face
Linguistic Anthropology in 2017
In this review, I discuss recent works that embody Monica Heller's (2017, 12) assertion that anthropology is about "imagining alternative worlds." In the first section, "Presence(s), Contact(s), and their Alternatives," I focus on work that refines our analytical grasp of the semiotic processes underlying past, current, and projected realities, possibilities, and engagements. The second section, "Shifting Political Economies," deals with publicat…
Deaf Language
Scholarly and popular perspectives concerning both the nature of deafness and of language vary across social and cultural contexts. The situated, contingent, and mutually constitutive nature of such concepts are consequential for the lived experience of deaf persons and for theories of language broadly. Linguistic anthropologists have focused on ethnographically detailing how deaf people navigate and generate such language ideologies
Figure (of Personhood) Drawing
This article explores how the affordances of pictorial representations of sign language forms (as enacted by illustrated signers) impact institutional processes of enskillment to sign language use. First, I attend to the participation framework roles such images inhabit in processes through which deaf teachers work to socialize novice signers to control the viewpoint reversals fundamental to local signing practices. I then explore how novice sign…
Shadows and Mirrors
In introducing the concept of "shadow conversations," Judith T. Irvine (1996) sharpened our analytical understanding of instances in which conjectures about past and future moments in a chain of discourse events inform the distribution of participant roles in an unfolding interaction. Expanding upon this notion, this article considers how conversations that did or will not occur-or are imagined as having not occurred-can equally function as shado…
Judith T. Irvine and the Social Life of Scholarship
Ordering burgers, reordering relations
This article analyzes gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis to argue that local understandings of the consequences of these engagements make visible ways of ideologizing gesture that may be obscured by the gestural typologies widely used by scholars. In Nepal, d/Deafness is associated with ritual pollution that can be shared across persons. Consequently, the use of gesture in a communicative interaction can both presuppose the …
Deafmum
Annabelle Xerri, a Maltese Deaf activist, and Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, a hearing American anthropologist, analyze Annabelle’s social media posts detailing how she navigates sensory and linguistic asymmetries between herself and her hearing children. These posts are part of a larger activist effort to ensure that d/Deaf children in Malta are provided access to sign language. We situate these social media posts in the broader moment in which her ac…
Sign Languages
Ethnographic studies of sign languages illuminate and complicate the ways in which the category of sign language is differentiated from other categories, including the categories of language and non-language, different types of sign languages, and signed versus spoken languages. These studies also highlight how sign language ideologies emerge in particular contexts, methods, and interpretations of data. An ethics of nonnormative communication is …
How Did We Meet
This comic-format article details a 2024 workshop that the authors held in Nepal, in which Nepali, US, and Chinese writers and artists teamed up to create collaborative, nonfiction, research-based comics. Participants' research focused on "everyday life" in the Nepali city of Patan and was grounded in open-ended ethnographic interviews that each pair conducted with locals. This article draws on the events and output of the workshop to consider th…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (12 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Sign language (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Ideology (5 obras)