Sensing the rhythms of everyday life

Temporal integration and tactile translation in the Seattle Deaf-Blind community

Bibliographic Data

ID2882722
AuthorsT Edwards (0000-0002-6893-9079, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume41
Issue1
Pages29-71
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s004740451100090x
OpenAlexW2101369574
LanguageEN
Citations received24
References cited43

This article is concerned with how social actors establish relations between language, the body, and the physical and social environment. The empirical focus is a series of interactions between Deaf-Blind people and tactile signed language interpreters in Seattle, Washington. Many members of the Seattle Deaf-Blind community were born deaf and, due to a genetic condition, lose their vision slowly over the course of many years. Drawing on recent work in language and practice theory, I argue that these relations are established by Deaf-Blind people through processes ofintegrationwhereby continuity between linguistic, embodied, and social elements of a fading visual order are made continuous with corresponding elements in an emerging tactile order. In doing so, I contribute to current attempts in linguistic anthropology to model the means by which embodied, linguistic, and social phenomena crystallize in relational patterns to yield worlds that take on the appearance of concreteness and naturalness. (Classifiers, Deaf-Blind, integration, interpretation, language and embodiment, practice, rhythm, Tactile American Sign Language, tactility

Cognitive psychology · Embodied cognition · Focus (optics) · Linguistics · Sign language · Social relation · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Social Psychology

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