Signed Language Community-Researcher Collaboration inViệtNam

Challenging Language Ideologies, Creating Social Change

Bibliographic Data

ID2286124
AuthorsAudrey C Cooper (0000-0003-1407-2710, Department of Anthropology American University), Trần Thủy Tiên Nguyễn (Department of ASL and Deaf Studies Gallaudet University)
Year2015
Volume25
Issue2
Pages105-127
Publication date2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jola.12081
OpenAlexW1825776606
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited40

Examining linguistic practices and description involved in signed language community- researcher collaboration inViệtNam, this article contributes a case supporting analytic efforts to study the ways "people take up literacy for their own purposes" (Bialostok andWhitman 2006:390). Emerging at the juncture of national speech-basedDeaf education, one signed language-based education project, andDeaf community organizing, these collaborations coalesced in a political climate in which "signs" were construed as a compensatory system for "real" language (Woodward, Nguyễn, and Nguyễn 2004) and as "backward" relative to Vietnamese grammatical structure (Cooper 2014). Using original ethnographic data, microanalysis of two texts reveals that the ways presenters mobilize stances toward linguistic description and one another accrues legitimacy and authority forDeaf sociolinguistic knowledge andDeaf agency while implicitly challenging prevailing language ideologies and hierarchies. Discussion centers on processes of legitimation ofDeaf social voices, language invention/disinvention, interpretation/translation, and the significance of ethnography to the present analysis

Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy

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