Signing Readers, Silent Floors and the Incident Books of a Regional Library Network, 1988–2022
A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions and the School of Emergent Priorities reads seven editions of a regional library network's conduct rules against all 3,412 entries in its silent-floor incident books, and finds that signed conversation, rare in the books before a 2004 amendment against "conversation of any kind", was recorded 71 times in the eleven years after it. A 2015 edition welcoming signed conversation cut such entries sharply, but those that remained were written up as distraction, and the deaf readers interviewed still talked on the stair landing.
| Authors | Ragnhild Uzoma , Halvard Nnamani , Sunniva Balogun |
|---|---|
| School | School of Underlying Conditions |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.zple4c |
| Pages | 6 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_zple4c,
author = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Halvard Nnamani and Sunniva Balogun},
title = {Conversation of Any Kind: Signing Readers, Silent Floors and the Incident Books of a Regional Library Network, 1988–2022},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.zple4c},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-whether-signing-counts-zple4c/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}