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RESEARCH PRODUCT
EVALUATIVE LANGUAGE IN SPOKEN AND SIGNED STORIES TOLD BY A DEAF CHILD WITH A COCHLEAR IMPLANT: WORDS, SIGNS OR PARALINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS?
Ritva TakkinenLea Nieminensubject
Linguistics and LanguageCommunicationbusiness.industrybilingual language acquisitionmedicine.medical_treatmentlcsh:Finnic. Baltic-Finniclcsh:PH91-98.5Character (symbol)Sign languageParalanguageevaluative languageLanguage and LinguisticsLinguisticslcsh:Philology. Linguisticslcsh:P1-1091Direct speechstorytellingCochlear implantSubject (grammar)medicinebusinessPsychologylanguage developmentbimodal bilingual language acquisitionFinnish Sign Languagedescription
In this paper the use and quality of the evaluative language produced by a bilingual child in a story-telling situation is analysed. The subject, an 11-year-old Finnish boy, Jimmy, is bilingual in Finnish sign language (FinSL) and spoken Finnish. He was born deaf but got a cochlear implant at the age of five. The data consist of a spoken and a signed version of “The Frog Story”. The analysis shows that evaluative devices and expressions differ in the spoken and signed stories told by the child. In his Finnish story he uses mostly lexical devices – comments on a character and the character’s actions as well as quoted speech occasionally combined with prosodic features. In his FinSL story he uses both lexical and paralinguistic devices in a balanced way
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-06-17 | Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri |