Monday, March 25, 2013
SimCom in real life
I used the spring KyRID conference for my site visit and I got to thinking about SimCom because it was present at the conference and workshop I attended. The audience was clearly used to code switching between English and ASL/signing, so it didn't really phase us when the presenter said something in English to draw attention to a sign or vice versa. Also, one of the older Deaf audience members seemed to primarily use SimCom. As much as I value both languages independently, and feel that my skills in both decrease when SimCom-ing, it just goes to show that "It depends" is really the best slogan for our profession, because SimCom was used effectively in this instance and it seems like a primary means of communication for some.
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I think it's so fun to see the real life use of some of the things we talk about in class at locations like that.
ReplyDeleteHannah, I completely agree with your statements and comment above. I would have to support that to simcom, the place and audience has to appropriate for the success of the particular communication mode. Obviously, if there are only Deaf people present, to simcom would be extremely unnecessary. The Deaf individual that you mentioned was most likely doing this because he or she was in front of other hearing people. If only hearing individuals were to gather and simcom, there would have to be a reason to either be an example, show signs, or to some what respect the language by signing, while also honor the auditory english language.
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