Shadows and Mirrors

Spatial and Ideological Perspectives on Sign Language Competency

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2286355
AutoresErika Hoffmann‐dilloway (0000-0001-6435-1940, Oberlin College, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume31
Fascículo3
Páginas320-334
Data de publicação2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jola.12344
OpenAlexW4200505330
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas23

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 shadows that inform how unfolding interactions, and the participant roles entailed in their enactment, are understood. I analyze an exchange conducted in Maltese Sign Language (LSM), in which my status as a novice LSM signer led to a series of misunderstandings and repairs. In addition to illustrating the shadows cast by significant non-occurrences, the interaction and its mix-ups highlight the intersection of spatial and social forms of perspective taking. My analysis of the shadows that shaped interactive failure and success demonstrate the power of Irvine's analytical tools to connect the material, embodied details of a particular interactive moment to complex interdiscursive chains and language ideological perspectives

Demonstrative · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition