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Johnson, Jennifer T. – L2 Journal, 2017
Symbolic competence, "the ability to actively manipulate and shape one's environment on multiple scales of time and space" (Kramsch & Whiteside, 2008, p. 667), offers researchers and educators the ability to understand how learners position themselves. This positioning involves a vying for semiotic resources as a means to question…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Deafness, Hearing (Physiology), Power Structure
Shaw, Emily P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is an examination of gesture in two game nights: one in spoken English between four hearing friends and another in American Sign Language between four Deaf friends. Analyses of gesture have shown there exists a complex integration of manual gestures with speech. Analyses of sign language have implicated the body as a medium…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Semiotics