Title: Nonverbal Conversation-Regulating Signals of the Blind Adult
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to describe nonverbal conversation-regulating signals among the blind adult and to describe how these signals are manifested through body movements/positions and paralinguistic sounds/silences. Data consist of videotaped conversations between blind-blind pairs and blind-sighted pairs. The data are analyzed in a hermeneutical/phenomenological sense. The analysis is also inspired by Conversational Analysis. The analysis resulted in descriptions of four major signal types, i.e. the listener's back-channeling signals, the speaker's turn-holding signals, the listener's starting signals, and the speaker's turn-yielding signals. One central conclusion is that earlier experience of vision does not seem to be a prerequisite for showing a variety of different types of nonverbal conversation-regulating signals in a systematic and distinct manner.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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