Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160100142

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160100142

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Talking through touch: adapting sign languages for use by Deafblind people. This project intends to investigate tactile Australian Sign Language (Auslan), the sign language of deafblind Australians. People who are both deaf and blind are at high risk of social isolation and often have only a limited number of people with whom they can communicate fluently. Those who were born deaf and lose vision as adults often use a tactile form of sign language, but how visual sign languages are modified for tactile delivery is poorly understood. Drawing on conversational data from experienced tactile signers, the project will use conversation analysis to document and describe tactile Auslan. This analysis aims to inform interpreter and case worker training and to contribute to our understanding of touch as a previously underexplored language modality.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 28-01-2016

End Date: 02-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $255,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistics | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Discourse and Pragmatics | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Ability and Disability | Communication Across Languages and Culture |

Other Keywords

Ability and Disability | Communication Across Languages and Culture | Discourse and Pragmatics | Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) | Linguistic Structures (incl. Grammar, Phonology, Lexicon, Semantics) | Linguistics

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