Signing songs and the openings of semiotic repertoires

Bibliographic Data

ID21244151
AuthorsK Snoddon (0000-0003-2866-5381, Toronto Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume10
Issue2
Pages255-277
Publication date2024-05-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTranslation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2352-1805 • E-ISSN: 2352-1813
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ttmc.00136.sno
OpenAlexW4396859640
LanguageEN
References cited34

This paper presents an interpretative interview study that explores a song signer’s motivations and language ideologies as they emerge in translanguaging between languages and modalities. In signing songs, the limitations and proficiencies of deaf artists’ and audience members’ particular linguistic and semiotic repertoires come to the fore. The artist mediates between the affordances of the asymmetrically shared visual and auditory channels, as well as across music, song lyrics, and sign language. In so doing, they produce a distinctive text whose appreciation may expose the partial and asymmetric repertoires of audience members, as well as the limitations of the text itself in crossing borders. These limitations and asymmetries render song signing an ethical event because the ethical possibilities of communication emerge in its fallibility

Affordance · Art · Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Literature · Lyrics · Modalities · Semiotics · Sign language · Sociology · Communication · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology

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