2021, Girard, Simone, Kohn, Johanna

Der Anteil an Menschen mit einer Hörbeeinträchtigung nimmt mit fortschreitendem Alter zu. In diesem Beitrag geht es im Besonderen um Menschen, die bereits als Kleinkinder oder vor Abschluss des Lautspracherwerbs gehörlos wurden. Der Artikel 19 der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention fordert Massnahmen, damit Menschen mit Behinderungen selbstbestimmt leben können; insbesondere in Bezug auf das Wohnen. In diesem Beitrag wird eine laufende Studie vorgestellt, welche die Situation von gehörlosen Personen im Alter erörtert und den Handlungsbedarf hinsichtlich der unabhängigen Lebensführung aufzeigt. In den Interviews hat sich bisher herausgestellt, dass der Kontakt sowohl zu gehörlosen als auch zu hörenden Menschen für alle Befragten ein wesentliches Qualitätsmerkmal von geeigneten Wohnformen im Alter ist. Der Zugang zu altersrelevanten Informationen im Sinne der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention ist noch nicht gewährleistet.

2018, Parpan-Blaser, Anne, von Fellenberg, Monika, Girard, Simone, Lichtenauer, Annette, Antener, Gabriela

2018, Lichtenauer, Annette, Antener, Gabriela, Parpan-Blaser, Anne, Girard, Simone

2015, Girard, Simone

There have been relatively few studies on sign language interaction carried out within the framework of conversation analysis (CA). Therefore, questions remain open about how the basic building blocks of social interaction such as turn, turn construction unit (TCU) and turn transition relevance place (TRP) can be understood and analyzed in sign language interaction. Recent studies have shown that signers regularly fine-tune their turn-beginnings to potential completion points of turns (Groeber, 2014; Groeber and Pochon-Berger, 2014; De Vos et al., 2015). Moreover, signers deploy practices for overlap resolution as in spoken interaction (McCleary and Leite, 2013). While these studies have highlighted the signers' orientation to the “one-at-a-time” principle described by Sacks et al. (1974), the present article adds to this line of research by investigating in more detail those sequential environments where overlaps occur. The contribution provides an overview of different types of overlap with a focus of the overlap's onset with regard to a current signer's turn. On the basis of a 33-min video-recording of a multi-party interaction between 4 female signers in Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS), the paper provides evidence for the orderliness of overlapping signing. Furthermore, the contribution demonstrates how participants collaborate in the situated construction of turns as a dynamic and emergent gestalt and how they interactionally achieve turn transition. Thereby the study adds to recent research in spoken and in signed interaction that proposes to rethink turn boundaries and turn transition as flexible and interactionally achieved.

2018, Antener, Gabriela, Girard, Simone, Lichtenauer, Annette

2014, Girard, Simone, Pochon-Berger, Evelyne

This article examines a recurrent phenomenon in sign language interaction: the freezing of a sign, called a ‘hold’, in turn-final position. This phenomenon is traditionally described as a prosodic feature that contributes to the rhythm of signed talk and to the marking of syntactic boundaries, hence not adding any propositional content on its own. A detailed observation of these holds in naturally occurring conversational data, however, raises the following questions: What is the relevance of such holds in the management of turn-taking? What meaningful social action do they accomplish? Based on 90 min of video-recordings of Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) interaction within an institutional setting, we undertake micro-sequential and multimodal analyses yielding the following findings (1) turn-final holds occur recurrently in turns that set a strong action projection (e.g. questions), (2) they embody the current speaker's expectations regarding next actions; and therefore (3) their release is finely tuned to the recognizability of the relevant and expected next action in progress.