Rachel Sutton-Spence
Biographic Data
| ID | 128322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Sutton-Spence |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutton-Spence |
| SIGNATURE | SUTTON-SPENCE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Antologias Literárias Em Libras
Tradução em Libras por Nielson Firmino de Oliveira do artigo Antologias Literárias em Libras das autoras Rachel Sutton-Spence, Fernanda de Araújo Machado, Anna Luiza Maciel, Ronice Müller de Quadros, publicado em Dossiê Forum lingüístic, Florianópolis, v.17, n.4, p.5 505 - 5525 , out./dez. 2020
Eu Sou O Livro
Por Pollyana Stephanie de Oliveira Alves e BATISTA, tradução do original inglês de SUTTON-SPENCE, Rachel, QUADROS, Ronice M.I am the book” - Deaf Poets ́ Views on Signed Poetry.in Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 19:4 October 2014
Constructing visual images in creative sign language in solo and collaborative performance
This article considers ways in which signing poets use space to produce visual images, creating aesthetic and metaphorical effects using the options available to sign languages and their bodies, whether in a solo performance or jointly constructed as duets or living tableaus. Close reading of sign language poetry shows poets use their bodies to demonstrate poetic images directly, by embodying the referent so they 'become' it, or by showing it thr…
Por que precisamos de poesia sinalizada em educação bilíngue
Uma verdadeira educação bilíngue e bicultural para crianças surdas requer que elas aprendam a forma de arte surda de poesia em língua de sinais. Neste artigo apresento as vantagens e desvantagens de se fazer isto. Revisando a escassa literatura sobre o ensino de poesia sinalizada para crianças surdas, seja traduzida ou original, eu a relaciono ao uso de literatura em cenários de aprendizagem de L2. Reflexões de professores-poetas surdos do Reino …
Why we need signed poetry in bilingual education
A truly bilingual and bicultural education for deaf children requires them to learn about the deaf art-form of sign language poetry. In this article I outline the advantages and challenges of doing this. Reviewing the scarce literature on teaching deaf children signed poetry, whether translated or original, I relate it to the use of literature in L2-learning settings. Reflections of deaf teacher-poets from the UK show that deaf children readily r…
Iconicity and Metaphor in Sign Language Poetry
This article explores a unique relationship between iconicity and metaphor: that seen in creative sign language, where iconic properties abound at all levels of linguistic representation. We use the idea of “iconic superstructure” to consider the way that metaphoric meaning is generated through the iconic properties of creative sign language. We focus on the interaction between the overall contextual force and individual elements that build up sy…
Deaf jokes and sign language humor
This paper describes the humor of Deaf communities, arguing that the humor is related primarily to the dominant visual experience of Deaf people, but also influenced by their knowledge of humor traditions in the hearing society at large. Sign language humor in America and Britain may be seen in the creation of new visual signs, the witty reanalysis of existing signs and in bilingual games in which English is manipulated within sign languages. The…
Negotiating the Legacy of Hearingness
Rachel and Donna are hearing, sign-language-using researchers who, since 1989/1999, respectively, have worked in the field of Deaf Studies. In 2008, they were both invited, separately, to present at a conference called "I am Deaf: Deaf Studies in the 21st Century" that caused them to reassess who they are and where they fit with Deaf Studies. Donna presented, and Rachel booked a foreign holiday
Limitations on simultaneity in sign language
Sign languages have two primary articulation tracts: the two hands. They also have secondary articulation tracts that can be partitioned: the nonmanuals. Thus multiple propositions can be conveyed simultaneously. We have attested at most four simultaneously articulated independent propositions in sign languages, and suggest that this limit follows at least partly from limitations on visual short-term memory to cope with the information received. …
Creativity in Sign Languages
The Linguistics of British Sign Language
This is the first detailed explanation of the way British Sign Language works and is the product of many years' experience of research and teaching sign linguistics to deaf and hearing people. It assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics or sign language, and is not structured around traditional headings such as phonology, morphology and syntax. Instead it is set out in such a way as to help learners and their teachers understand the linguisti…
The influence of English on British Sign Language
British Sign Language (BSL) exists surrounded by the powerful majority language, English, and is influenced by English. As a visual-gestural language, it is structurally radically different from English. In order to permit borrowing BSL needs to represent forms from a sound-based language in a vision-based language. The research described here details the influence of English on BSL at the syntactic, morphological, lexical and idiomatic, and phon…
Constructing Deafness
Variation and recent change in fingerspelling in British Sign Language
British Sign Language is a language exhibiting extensive regional variation and undergoing rapid change, in a period of changing attitudes to the language and the community of signers. Fingerspelling (a representation of written English) is an aspect of BSL that reflects these variations strongly. Analysis of interviews with Deaf signers appearing on BBC television shows that use of fingerspelling may vary according to various demographic factors…
Variation and recent change in fingerspelling in British Sign Language
British Sign Language is a language exhibiting extensive regional variation and undergoing rapid change, in a period of changing attitudes to the language and the community of signers. Fingerspelling (a representation of written English) is an aspect of BSL that reflects these variations strongly. Analysis of interviews with Deaf signers appearing on BBC television shows that use of fingerspelling may vary according to various demographic factors…
Negotiating the Legacy of Hearingness
Rachel and Donna are hearing, sign-language-using researchers who, since 1989/1999, respectively, have worked in the field of Deaf Studies. In 2008, they were both invited, separately, to present at a conference called "I am Deaf: Deaf Studies in the 21st Century" that caused them to reassess who they are and where they fit with Deaf Studies. Donna presented, and Rachel booked a foreign holiday
Deaf jokes and sign language humor
This paper describes the humor of Deaf communities, arguing that the humor is related primarily to the dominant visual experience of Deaf people, but also influenced by their knowledge of humor traditions in the hearing society at large. Sign language humor in America and Britain may be seen in the creation of new visual signs, the witty reanalysis of existing signs and in bilingual games in which English is manipulated within sign languages. The…
Limitations on simultaneity in sign language
Sign languages have two primary articulation tracts: the two hands. They also have secondary articulation tracts that can be partitioned: the nonmanuals. Thus multiple propositions can be conveyed simultaneously. We have attested at most four simultaneously articulated independent propositions in sign languages, and suggest that this limit follows at least partly from limitations on visual short-term memory to cope with the information received. …
Constructing visual images in creative sign language in solo and collaborative performance
This article considers ways in which signing poets use space to produce visual images, creating aesthetic and metaphorical effects using the options available to sign languages and their bodies, whether in a solo performance or jointly constructed as duets or living tableaus. Close reading of sign language poetry shows poets use their bodies to demonstrate poetic images directly, by embodying the referent so they 'become' it, or by showing it thr…
Por que precisamos de poesia sinalizada em educação bilíngue
Uma verdadeira educação bilíngue e bicultural para crianças surdas requer que elas aprendam a forma de arte surda de poesia em língua de sinais. Neste artigo apresento as vantagens e desvantagens de se fazer isto. Revisando a escassa literatura sobre o ensino de poesia sinalizada para crianças surdas, seja traduzida ou original, eu a relaciono ao uso de literatura em cenários de aprendizagem de L2. Reflexões de professores-poetas surdos do Reino …
Variation and recent change in fingerspelling in British Sign Language
British Sign Language is a language exhibiting extensive regional variation and undergoing rapid change, in a period of changing attitudes to the language and the community of signers. Fingerspelling (a representation of written English) is an aspect of BSL that reflects these variations strongly. Analysis of interviews with Deaf signers appearing on BBC television shows that use of fingerspelling may vary according to various demographic factors…
Constructing Deafness
The Linguistics of British Sign Language
This is the first detailed explanation of the way British Sign Language works and is the product of many years' experience of research and teaching sign linguistics to deaf and hearing people. It assumes no previous knowledge of linguistics or sign language, and is not structured around traditional headings such as phonology, morphology and syntax. Instead it is set out in such a way as to help learners and their teachers understand the linguisti…
The influence of English on British Sign Language
British Sign Language (BSL) exists surrounded by the powerful majority language, English, and is influenced by English. As a visual-gestural language, it is structurally radically different from English. In order to permit borrowing BSL needs to represent forms from a sound-based language in a vision-based language. The research described here details the influence of English on BSL at the syntactic, morphological, lexical and idiomatic, and phon…
Creativity in Sign Languages
Limitations on simultaneity in sign language
Sign languages have two primary articulation tracts: the two hands. They also have secondary articulation tracts that can be partitioned: the nonmanuals. Thus multiple propositions can be conveyed simultaneously. We have attested at most four simultaneously articulated independent propositions in sign languages, and suggest that this limit follows at least partly from limitations on visual short-term memory to cope with the information received. …
Negotiating the Legacy of Hearingness
Rachel and Donna are hearing, sign-language-using researchers who, since 1989/1999, respectively, have worked in the field of Deaf Studies. In 2008, they were both invited, separately, to present at a conference called "I am Deaf: Deaf Studies in the 21st Century" that caused them to reassess who they are and where they fit with Deaf Studies. Donna presented, and Rachel booked a foreign holiday
Iconicity and Metaphor in Sign Language Poetry
This article explores a unique relationship between iconicity and metaphor: that seen in creative sign language, where iconic properties abound at all levels of linguistic representation. We use the idea of “iconic superstructure” to consider the way that metaphoric meaning is generated through the iconic properties of creative sign language. We focus on the interaction between the overall contextual force and individual elements that build up sy…
Deaf jokes and sign language humor
This paper describes the humor of Deaf communities, arguing that the humor is related primarily to the dominant visual experience of Deaf people, but also influenced by their knowledge of humor traditions in the hearing society at large. Sign language humor in America and Britain may be seen in the creation of new visual signs, the witty reanalysis of existing signs and in bilingual games in which English is manipulated within sign languages. The…
Por que precisamos de poesia sinalizada em educação bilíngue
Uma verdadeira educação bilíngue e bicultural para crianças surdas requer que elas aprendam a forma de arte surda de poesia em língua de sinais. Neste artigo apresento as vantagens e desvantagens de se fazer isto. Revisando a escassa literatura sobre o ensino de poesia sinalizada para crianças surdas, seja traduzida ou original, eu a relaciono ao uso de literatura em cenários de aprendizagem de L2. Reflexões de professores-poetas surdos do Reino …
Why we need signed poetry in bilingual education
A truly bilingual and bicultural education for deaf children requires them to learn about the deaf art-form of sign language poetry. In this article I outline the advantages and challenges of doing this. Reviewing the scarce literature on teaching deaf children signed poetry, whether translated or original, I relate it to the use of literature in L2-learning settings. Reflections of deaf teacher-poets from the UK show that deaf children readily r…
Constructing visual images in creative sign language in solo and collaborative performance
This article considers ways in which signing poets use space to produce visual images, creating aesthetic and metaphorical effects using the options available to sign languages and their bodies, whether in a solo performance or jointly constructed as duets or living tableaus. Close reading of sign language poetry shows poets use their bodies to demonstrate poetic images directly, by embodying the referent so they 'become' it, or by showing it thr…
Antologias Literárias Em Libras
Tradução em Libras por Nielson Firmino de Oliveira do artigo Antologias Literárias em Libras das autoras Rachel Sutton-Spence, Fernanda de Araújo Machado, Anna Luiza Maciel, Ronice Müller de Quadros, publicado em Dossiê Forum lingüístic, Florianópolis, v.17, n.4, p.5 505 - 5525 , out./dez. 2020
Eu Sou O Livro
Por Pollyana Stephanie de Oliveira Alves e BATISTA, tradução do original inglês de SUTTON-SPENCE, Rachel, QUADROS, Ronice M.I am the book” - Deaf Poets ́ Views on Signed Poetry.in Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 19:4 October 2014
Hearing Impairment and Communication (12 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Sign language (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sign (mathematics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)