Conversational repair is the process people use to detect and resolve problems of speaking,
hearing, and understanding. Through repair, participants in social interaction display how …

Practices of other-initiated repair deal with problems of hearing or understanding what
another person has said in the fast-moving turn-by-turn flow of conversation. As such, other …

Cross-linguistic studies of tactile sign language are still not widely performed internationally.
For this study, four deafblind informants in two different tactile sign languages, Swedish Sign …

How do deaf and deafblind individuals process touch? This question offers a unique model
to understand the prospects and constraints of neural plasticity. Our brain constantly …

Reflecting on the challenges of capturing and analyzing the multimodal complexity of human
interactions, this paper examines the potentials of Conversation Analysis (CA) methods for …

Within the field of sign language linguistics, an emerging area of interest is the sign
language forms used by people who are both deaf and blind. In very simple terms, a …

This article investigates differences in pragmatic abilities between children who have
cochlear implants and their hearing peers. Recordings of 10-minute conversations between …

Everyday conversation is, as the term suggests, a frequent and seemingly effortless
phenomenon. However, when closely examined, it is seen that the process of achieving …

In this chapter, we consider how people who are born deaf and lose their sight later in life go
about adapting Australian sign language (Auslan) for tactile delivery and reception. We …

This article examines how conversational repair is organized in the reduced communicative
channel of whistled speech in San Pedro Sochiapam Chinantec of Oaxaca, Mexico. It …