Since my undergraduate project on disability geography, I have been working on how (oral) deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) people employ linguistic resources in spoken language to do identities. In my doctoral thesis, I adopt sociophonetic methods from the third wave variationist sociolinguistics to see how D/HH speakers engage with segmental features in Taiwan Mandarin to perform hearingness/deafness.
The topics which are included in my doctorial projects are:
The topics which are included in my doctorial projects are:
- How D/HH speakers of pathologized speech style themselves in a minimal pair reading task where the highest self-awareness of pronunciation is primed.
- How D/HH people demonstrate changes in vowel quality when their hearing assistive devices are turned off. Different from a mechanistic perspective, I emphasize speaker agency with which the D/HH people affectively negotiate with the presented images of the self during the auditory deprivation.
- How D/HH speakers engage with the topic effect which mobilizes changes in retroflexion of the sibilant fricative among hearing speakers.
Publications:
- Wan, T.-L. A. (2021). Formulating (Dis)Ability: Discursive Construction of Cochlear Implant Satisfaction. In Jessica Nina Lester (Ed.) Discursive Psychology and Disability, pp. 169-197. Springer.
Wan, T.-L. A. (2021). Sociolinguistics of Pathologized Speech: A Case of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 25(3): 438-452. - Wan, T.-L. A. (2021). Minimal Pair Reading as a Social Activity: Hard-of-Hearing Speech and Sociological Consciousness. Presented in New Ways of Analyzing Variation Asia-Pacific 6. National University of Singapore.
- Wan, T.-L. A. (2016). 轉聲∕身術臺灣聽障者的賽伯格、身分協商與空間性 [Transformation Cyborg, Identity Negotiation and Spatiality of Hearing Disabled People in Taiwan]. 地理學報 [Journal of Geographical Science]. 81: 1-26.
