Signing songs and the openingsof semiotic repertoires

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This paper presents an interpretative interview study that explores a songsigner’s motivations and language ideologies as they emerge intranslanguaging between languages and modalities. In signing songs, thelimitations and prociencies of deaf artists’ and audience members’particular linguistic and semiotic repertoires come to the fore. The artistmediates between the aordances of the asymmetrically shared visual andauditory channels, as well as across music, song lyrics, and sign language. Inso doing, they produce a distinctive text whose appreciation may expose thepartial and asymmetric repertoires of audience members, as well as thelimitations of the text itself in crossing borders. These limitations andasymmetries render song signing an ethical event because the ethicalpossibilities of communication emerge in its fallibility

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