Communication as social engagement: implications for interactions between deaf and hearing persons.
Communication involves sending and receiving signals. However, it is also a form of social engagement. Constraints on communication between deaf and hearing persons often result in strained interactions as well as los of "full" information. In this paper, a meta-ethnographic approach is used to describe the impact of "spoiled" communication on social engagement between deaf and hearing persons.
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National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology 14623-5604, USA. SBFNIS@RIT.edu
D003142:Communication; D003638:Deafness; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012918:Social Alienation; D012934:Social Isolation; D012951:Socialization; D013240:Stereotyping