Which equal environment and identity strengthens and weakens

the sign language for deaf people?

Joni OysermanSilja RuonalaNina Sivunen

28.11.2011Jyväskylän yliopisto

Contents

Background Data collection Results Consideration References

“Deaf people are nation without a country”

Bernard Mottez

Topic's selecting and background

Interesting- how the deaf uses sign language in different environment

Which kind of equivalent do they experience Do they feel equal in a multimodal

interaction environment

Data Collection Thesistools

Questionnaire 15 questions Answered 65

Questionnaires had focused to get a response for how deaf, hard-of-hearing, CI-user feel equal in different environment

Table 1 Male

Female

Deaf school

HH school/class

Hearing school

Institution school

Netherlands

Finland

Deaf

CODA

HH

CI-user

Hearing

Work

Student0

10

20

30

40

50

6016

49

18

0

20

22

8

57

32

2

6

1

24

24

22

Table 2

Result

Majority of deaf had answered No feel equal in work place

Caused unfair with identity in communication or asseignments

“Yes” for Facebook equal No barries on communication Visual discourse (Norris)

Less “Yes” for msn, chat, twitter equal No enough skills to communicate written

language

Result

“Yes” for less equal in Youtube Directed by audio (2,2 millions hits)

“Yes” for equal feel in street, resturant and shops – but no equal feel in public transport (bus, train and airplane)

Information by audio Deaf with hearing sport is clearly low equal than

with deaf environment

Consideration

Sign language identity become weak depends spoken and written environment

Deaf people are depending on multimodal environment and by interaction

An environment with signed language and visual space it strengthens the sign language identity

Deaf feel equal with an identity balance except in bus, train and airplane and sport with hearing

Reference

Broesterhuizen, M. 2003. Doofheid: beperking of kracht? Tijdschrift voor Theologie, 43, no. 1: 52-77.

Norris, S. 2011. Identity in (inter)action : introducing multimodal (inter)action analysis. Gruyter

Mouton.

Salo, S. 2005. Tapaustutkimus kuuron omasta identiteetistä sekä voimaantumisesta. Jyväskylän yliopisto. Opettajankoulutuslaitos. Kasvatustieteen pro gradu –tutkielma.

Skelton,T. & Valentine, G. 2003. It feels like being Deaf is normal: an exploration into the complexities of defining D/deafness and young D/deaf people’s identities. Loughborough University: Sheffield University.

Wallvik,B. Yhdistystoiminnan synty. In Malm, A. & Östman, J-O. 2000. Viittomakieliset ja heidän kielensä. Teoksessa Viittomakieliset Suomessa. Finnlectura: Pieksämäki.