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Salience and Situatedness in Croatian Sign Language

This paper examines cognitive linguistics’ concepts of salience and situatedness in Croatian Sign Language used by three groups of hearing impaired participants: profoundly deaf, cochlear implant users and participants who are hard of hearing. The results showed that the discussed cognitive concepts cannot be traced systematically in the linguistic expressions of the hearing impaired participants and that their verbal ability and communicative competence depend severely on their hearing status. Surprisingly, CI participants produced less, raising question about their rehabilitation.

salience ; situatedness ; sign language ; hearing impairment ; cochlear implant

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