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Tactile Sign Language: Turn taking and Questions in Signed
Conversations of Deaf-Blind People Johanna Mesch Introduction A Conversation Between Deaf-Blind People There are a number of different descriptions of the communication of deaf-blind people and tactile sign language (see for instance www.fsdb.org/about.htm). But there are few linguistic studies of the tactile sign language of deaf-blind people. Apart from my own earlier studies of Swedish sign language (Mesch 1990; 1994), there are really only several studies of American sign language (Reed et al. 1995, Collins & Petronio 1998) as well. This is why I chose to extend my analysis of how deaf-blind people converse with one another in tactile sign language. In particular, I was interested in turn-taking and questions in order to see how deaf-blind people read signs and signals manually. A transcribed sequence from the material of this study shows how two deaf-blind conversation participants converse with one another:
1 3aDB PEK-f-kort
ALLTID PEK-adr-lång-k TECKNA TOLK GE-c-f >
3aDB Du brukar meddela tolken när du inte förstår? |