ABSTRACT

In this paper, I address the question of how interactions with deaf youth and their hearing interlocutors are able to unfold in economical and fluid ways despite the existence of sensory and communicative asymmetries. Bringing together ethnographic insights from two years of fieldwork in Iquitos, Peru with the microanalysis of moments of situated interaction, I highlight the role that repetitions of similar assemblages of people, objects, and places play in the process of meaning-making between deaf youth and their hearing interlocutors. I argue that the repetition of similar assemblages facilitates the process of meaning-making by narrowing down the trajectory of the interactions that emerge in a particular moment and by providing the occasion for building shared semiotic resources specific to the reoccurring activity.

摘要

在本文中，我解决了一个问题，即尽管存在感官和沟通上的不对称，但与聋哑青年及其听力对话者的互动如何能够以经济和流畅的方式发展。通过对秘鲁伊基托斯两年野外工作的人种学见解，以及对情景互动瞬间的微观分析，我强调了重复的相似人物，物体和地点的组合在聋人青年和聋哑人之间的意义形成过程中所起的作用。他们的听力对话者。我认为，类似集合的重复通过缩小特定时刻出现的交互作用的轨迹并为构建针对重复发生的活动的共享符号资源提供了机会，从而促进了意义的形成过程。