Describes research conducted at a school for deaf children which combined microanalysis of the communicative behaviors of individuals with the sociocultural analysis of groups within one institutional setting. Three factors were found to have most influence on the teacher's communicative behavior during the recorded interactions with the children.…

Ethnographically discovered role conceptions that the deaf have of hearing people can be characterized as three destinctive patterns or types. Until deafness is understood as a social phenomena, distorted communicative situations will occur between the deaf and the hearing. Instances of distorted communication are cited. (SW)

Study of the relationship between differences in deaf haptic behavior and level of individual's language skill. Two types of haptic behavior were distinguished: self-directed and interpersonal. The communicative role of haptic behavior varies according to age and spoken language skills. (Author/LMO)

Describes an experiment comparing communication accuracy within and between various sign languages from different countries. Longer communications were generally more successful than shorter ones. Deaf signers understand their own sign language better than they do foreign sign languages. (Author/LMO)

In this article, the authors investigate visual and tactile ASL-English interpreters' influences on interactive discourse through an interactional sociolinguistic analysis of videotaped, interpreted interactions. They examine the participation framework of each of the interactions to determine whether the interpreters' utterances influence the…