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Kusters, Annelies; De Meulder, Maartje; Napier, Jemina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Most FLP research focuses on intrafamily communication (1FLP) and how this is impacted by larger contexts. But what happens when different multilingual families interact intensively on a daily basis? This article analyses language use during a holiday in India in and between four deaf-hearing befriended families, and how this evolved over the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Travel, Multilingualism, Language Usage
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Kusters, Annelies – Sign Language Studies, 2014
This article provides an ethnographic analysis of "deaf sociality" in Adamorobe, a village in Ghana, where the relatively high prevalence of hereditary deafness has led to dense social and spatial connections. Deaf people are part of their hearing environment particularly through family networks, and produce deaf sociality through many…
Descriptors: Deafness, Churches, Social Work, Socialization
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Kusters, Annelies – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This article is a result of my MSc Deaf Studies dissertation that is situated on an intersection between Deaf geography, anthropology and Deafhood theory. During five weeks of participatory observation and interviews in Mumbai, my attention was drawn to the city's lifeline: the suburban train system. It appeared that Deaf people tend to travel in…
Descriptors: Geography, Deafness, Anthropology, Disabilities