Text cohesion by the deaf as seen by the hearer: the use of oral cues in written texts

Authors

  • Wagner Teobaldo Lopes de Andrade UFPB
  • Marígia Ana de Moura Aguiar UNICAP
  • Francisco Madeiro UNICAP
  • Sandra Patrícia Ataíde Ferreira UFPE
  • Antonio Roazzi UFPE

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v14i1.12580

Keywords:

deafness, oral cues, writing, text cohesion

Abstract

The use of sign language by the deaf, though a means of providing access to knowledge, offers some specific difficulties on reading/writing due to the impossibility on acquiring the written code of the official spoken language. Taking into account that some oral cues favor textual cohesion, the question this paper is mainly concerned with is whether the use of oral cues in writing favors comprehension as well. The aim of this research was to offer written texts produced by the deaf to the non deaf to see how the text was understood by these speakers. Some written fragments contained two or more oral cues, some with just one cue or with no cues produced by the deaf and some texts produced by the non deaf were offered to university hearing students who were asked to score the texts by means of levels of comprehension. The results showed that the answers favored the texts produced by the non deaf people followed by those with more than two oral cues produced by the deaf; the texts that offered difficulty for comprehension were those with no oral cues produced by the deaf. This paper suggests that the oral cues bring cohesion to the texts produced by the deaf thus favoring the hearer text comprehension.

 

Keywords: deafness; oral cues; writing; text cohesion.

Author Biographies

Wagner Teobaldo Lopes de Andrade, UFPB

Fonoaudiólogo. Professor Assistente I do Departamento de Fonoaudiologia da UFPB. Doutorando em Linguística pela UFPB. Mestre em Ciências da Linguagem (UNICAP/2007). Especialista em Audiologia (UNICAP/2004).

Marígia Ana de Moura Aguiar, UNICAP

Pós-doutorado pela University of Birmingham (Reino Unido). PhD em Psicolinguística pela Reading University (Reino Unido). Professora do Mestrado em Ciências da Linguagem da UNICAP. Pesquisadora do CNPq.

Francisco Madeiro, UNICAP

Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica pela UFPB. Professor do Mestrado em Ciências da Linguagem da UNICAP.

Sandra Patrícia Ataíde Ferreira, UFPE

Professora Adjunto do Departamento de Psicologia e Orientação Educacionais (Centro de Educação) e da Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Cognitiva (Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas) da UFPE.

Antonio Roazzi, UFPE

PhD em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento pela University of Oxford (Inglaterra) e, atualmente, Coordenador do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Cognitiva da UFPE.

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Published

2010-10-25

How to Cite

de Andrade, W. T. L., Aguiar, M. A. de M., Madeiro, F., Ferreira, S. P. A., & Roazzi, A. (2010). Text cohesion by the deaf as seen by the hearer: the use of oral cues in written texts. Interação Em Psicologia, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v14i1.12580

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Vol. 14 No. 1 (2010)

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