Abstract
With a focus on deaf-hearing interaction, the aim of this paper is to reflect on what happens when misunderstandings in communication occur. The scenario for the interaction is a reading workshop carried out as part of an educational project. The issue for investigation arose in the reading of the transcriptions of the video data generated in the fieldwork of an ethnographic project. Our presupposition is that this type of interaction is multilingual and that this multilingualism is more complex and comprehensive than the use of separate languages. The data analysis is theoretically informed by the concept of transidiomatic practices against the background of language ideologies. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Highlights
The precautions taken when reading and re-reading data generated in fieldwork before referring it to a conceptual framework is part of our day-to-day praxis as researchers interested in minority settings in Brazil and, in the case of the present research, focusing on a deaf scenario
It is striking to observe that a considerable portion of Brazilian society may come in touch with deaf people and with signed languages only very occasionally, in public events
Subjacent to the notion of language as code we find ideologies of language which have gained currency in the day-to-day of societies such as the ideologies of monolingualism and the very notion of language as a fixed object, which are applicable in the case of bilingualism, one language
Summary
The precautions taken when reading and re-reading data generated in fieldwork before referring it to a conceptual framework is part of our day-to-day praxis as researchers interested in minority settings in Brazil and, in the case of the present research, focusing on a deaf scenario.
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