Being Understood - Deaf Interpreters, Embodied Language and Relationality

Through a series of linked applied linguistics studies regarding the primacy of text, signing songs, the mediation practices of deaf interpreters and Caribbean deaf epistemologies of language and understanding, this book outlines theoretical and methodological approaches to analyzing deaf people's experiences of understanding and being understood.

About the author

Kristin Snoddon is an Associate Professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. She is co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education (with Joanne C. Weber, Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (with Annelies Kusters, Mara Green and Erin Moriarty, Mouton De Gruyter, 2020).

Product details

• Authors: Snoddon Kristin
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9781788921176
• ISBN: 978-1-78892-117-6
• No. of pages: 157
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Sociolinguistics, Relating to people with hearing disabilities or impairments, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability