Pejorative aspects attributed to hearing people in signed constructed dialogue

Fischer, Renate; Kollien, Simon

doi:10.1075/la.228.14fis

In:Pejoration
Edited by Rita Finkbeiner, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 228] 2016
► pp. 325–354

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Pejorative aspects attributed to hearing people in signed constructed dialogue

Renate Fischer | Universität Hamburg

Simon Kollien | Universität Hamburg

Published online: 31 March 2016

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.228.14fis

The article presents a study on iconic elements of pejorative discourse in German Sign Language when signers construct hearing people’s interactive behavior towards deaf people. The focus is on a typology of constructed dialogue with special emphasis on code-switching.

Keywords: code-switching, constructed dialogue, German Sign Language, gradience, typification

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