Sivunen2022

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Sivunen2022
BibType ARTICLE
Key Sivunen2022
Author(s) Nina Sivunen, Elina Tapio
Title “Do you understand (me)?” negotiating mutual understanding by using gaze and environmentally coupled gestures between two deaf signing participants
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Tag(s) EMCA, Multimodal interaction, Meaning-making, Mutual understanding, Intersubjectivity, Deaf, Gesture, Asylum seekers, Asymmetrical interaction
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Year 2022
Language English
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Journal Applied Linguistics Review
Volume 13
Number 6
Pages 983–1004
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DOI 10.1515/applirev-2019-0065
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In this paper we explore the use of multimodal and multilingual semiotic resources in interactions between two deaf signing participants, a researcher and an asylum seeker. The focus is on the use of gaze and environmentally coupled gestures. Drawing on multimodal analysis and linguistic ethnography, we demonstrate how gaze and environmentally coupled gestures are effective semiotic resources for reaching mutual understanding. The study provides insight into the challenges and opportunities (deaf) asylum seekers, researchers, and employees of reception centres or the state may encounter because of the asymmetrical language competencies. Our concern is that such asymmetrical situations may be created and maintained by ignoring visual and embodied resources in interaction and, in the case of deaf asylum seekers, by unrealistic expectations towards conventionalized forms of international sign.

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