Individual variation in performing reading-aloud speech among deaf speakers

Abstract: The study examines the stylistic variation (interview vs. passage-reading) of socially meaningful variables among orally educated deaf speakers of Mandarin in Taipei, Taiwan. I examine the use of the retroflex and alveolar fricatives across two groups: deaf persons who received speech therapy or training, and those who did not receive speech medicalization. The two groups acquire the metalinguistic awareness of sibilant variation in different ways. Results show that the former group utilize the variables in the same way as hearing persons do – increasing the degree of retroflexion in reading-aloud speech. The latter group engage with the variable in an opposite way – decreasing the degree of retroflexion, which nevertheless also indexes able-bodiedness, possibly via the embodied link between a stronger hiss and a fronted sibilant. I argue that we need to carefully look at what different linguistic variants index through locating the variants in each speaker’s personal history.
針對具有社會意義的台灣華語語言變項，本研究調查台灣口語族聽損者在訪談與段落朗讀兩種語域間的語言風格轉換。本研究討論兩組研究參與者對捲舌與齒槽擦音的口語產出：接受與未接受過語言治療或訓練之聽損者。這兩組研究參與者從不同的途徑獲得他們對於擦音變異之後設語言意識。本研究發現，參與語言醫療化行為的受試者在段落朗讀時增加了擦音的捲舌程度，就如同聽人如何表現朗讀言說;未曾參與語言治療或訓練課程的受試者則在段落朗讀時降低了擦音的捲舌程度，然而，這種口語產出行為依然是用以展演健全身體，這可能是來自於舌頭向前與較強的「噓聲」間的體感連結。本文指出，社會語言學分析必須謹慎地考慮個別說話者的生命史，才能準確了解口語產出的方向是指向什麼社會意義.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Individual variation in performing reading-aloud speech among deaf speakers ; volume:8 ; number:1 ; year:2022 ; pages:291-303 ; extent:13 ; Linguistics vanguard ; 8, Heft 1 (2022), 291-303 (gesamt 13)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Wan, Tsung-Lun Alan

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0076
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022123013092036419936
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:31 MESZ