Abstract
This study offers an explorative analysis of spoken interactions between hearing and deaf speakers applying the Conversation Analysis approach. The research aims at assessing the conversational competence of deaf interactants and the dialogic behavior of hearing interlocutors in terms of their disposition to facilitate deaf speakers’ participation to the interactional flow. Four dialogues between one deaf and one hearing speaker were thus recorded and analyzed according to different parameters. Deaf speakers’ behavior was described in terms of quantitative, semantic and interactional dominance; conversational scripts and repair strategies were considered for the hearing participant, using a specific spectro-acoustic analysis in order to portray the suprasegmental correlates of the accommodation strategies employed
Pellegrino, Elisa