German Sign Language and
Communication of the Deaf
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
7 May 2023, by Pamela Sundhausen
Photo: IDGS
On 3 May 2023, Ari Price gave a lecture on the “Semiological calibration in the translanguaging practices of deaf migrants in Norway”. Ari is in the first year of a three-year PhD project at the Western Norwegian University of Applied Sciences (HVL) in Bergen and reported on the current status of the research project. The lecture was held in English and interpreted into DGS.
The point of departure for Ari’s PhD project is the observation that migrants in Norway are required to learn Norwegian. Deaf migrants receive this instruction in Norwegian Sign Language (NTS), which means that they learn in an environment characterized by (multi)lingual backgrounds, a wide range of semiotic repertoires, and people who have been exposed to NTS and Norwegian to different degrees. The participants in Ari’s study practice a form of calibration and language blending (translanguaging) in their utterances. In the dissertation, Ari develops a socio-semiological linguistic approach to analyze participants' compound utterances. They also propose avenues for future research on the calibration process.
We thank Ari for an interesting presentation!