Listen First: Dialogic Research Ethics With Caribbean Signing Communities |
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Authors: | Elizabeth S. Parks |
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Affiliation: | Department of CommunicationUniversity of Minnesota Duluth |
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Abstract: | Successful research of Caribbean signed languages and deaf communities involves negotiating complex communication ethics toward both people and languages. In this article, I ground a call for ethical listening to Caribbean deaf and signing communities in sociolinguistic research that investigated deaf community and sign language boundaries in the Caribbean. I argue that a dialogic ethic that privileges listening is foundational for ethical research with Caribbean deaf and signing communities by discussing two ethical challenges that were central to understanding their narrative ground: the communicative construction of categories of linguistic membership and advocacy of social justice and human rights. |
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Keywords: | deaf sign language caribbean dialogic ethics research |
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