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Research is formalized curiosity.

It is poking and prying with a purpose.

-Zora Neale Hurston

Academic
Publications
Presentations

  • Healy, Christina. 2018. Construal of Content: A cognitive linguistic approach to interpreting affective constructions. Translation and Interpreting Studies, 13(1), 27-48.

  • Healy, Christina. 2015. Construal of Affective Events in American Sign Language. Doctoral Dissertation. Gallaudet University.
    (To view the dissertation and selections from the dissertation defense, please click here.)

  • Healy, Christina. 2015. Review of Irish Sign Language: A cognitive linguistic approach, by Lorraine Leeson and John I. Saeed. In Sign Language Studies, 18(1), 132-134.

  • Dachkovsky, Svetlana, Christina Healy, and Wendy Sandler. 2013. Visual Intonation in Two Sign Languages, Phonology 30(2): 211-252.

  • Healy, Christina. 2012. Pointing to Show Agreement, Semiotica 192, 175-196.

  • Healy, Christina. 2011. Segmenting Language through Prosody, University of Haifa English Department Journal 1(1): 19-28.

  • Healy, Christina. 2011. Pinky Extension as a Phonestheme in Mongolian Sign Language, Sign Language Studies 11(4): 575-593.

Community
Publications

  • Healy, Christina. 2018. Stages of Competence: Signed language interpreters and the 8th year climb. Street Leverage.
    https://streetleverage.com/2018/06/stages-of-competence-sign-language-interpreters-and-the-8th-year-climb/

  • Healy, Christina. 2013. Authority and Influence: Professor choices and student stress, Buff and Blue, Gallaudet University.

  • Healy, Christina. 2010. Unexpected Lessons from Surprising Sources, Fulbright U.S. Student Grantee Newsletter.

  • Healy, Christina. 2004. Interpreting Shakespeare from English into American Sign Language, Honors Thesis, Western Oregon University.

  • A Cognitive Linguistic approach to message analysis: Interpreting ASL & English affective constructions. April, 2017. Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research. Washington, DC.
  • Wearing your Heart on your Face: Affective constructions in American Sign Language. October, 2015. Non-Manuals at the Gesture Sign Interface, Göttingen, Germany. 
  • Fascination, Fear, and Focus. March, 2014. Georgetown University Round Table, Washington, DC
  • Dialect Contact: AAE, Black ASL and Mainstream ASL. May, 2013. Gallaudet Linguistic Department Brown Bag Lecture Series, Washington, DC
  • Healy to Haifa: A Fulbright year in Israel comparing Prosody in ASL and ISL. October, 2011. Gallaudet Linguistic Department Brown Bag Lecture Series, Washington, DC
  • The Universal and the Particular in Sign Language Prosody. October, 2011. Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics Annual Conference, Bar Ilon, Israel 
  • Similar and Unique Prosodic Marking in Israeli and American Sign Language. September, 2011. Current Issues in Sign Linguistics, Cognition, and Deafness Conference, London, England
  • Interpreting: A Consumer’s Perspective. May, 2010. Gallaudet Linguistic Department Brown Bag Lecture Series, Washington, DC
Posters

  • Below the Waist: Prosodic features of the lower body in American Sign Language. April, 2017. Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research. Washington, DC.

  • Affect Verbs in American Sign Language: A pilot study on construals evoked by ASL constructions. July, 2013. TISLR 11, London, England.

  • Affect Verbs in American Sign Language. November, 2012. High Desert Linguistic Society 10thAnnual Conference, Albuquerque, NM.

     

Fulbright Blog

 

In 2010-2011 I spent a year in Israel funded by a Fulbright Research Grant. I studied the similarities and differences in the prosodic systems of American Sign Language and Israeli Sign Language. As part of the Fulbright mission of cultural exchange, I kept a blog to share what I was experiencing and learning. 

 

Feel free to visit that blog to learn a bit about my time there:

www.healytohaifa.blogspot.com

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While conducting the study there, I also was interviewed by a local newspaper as an approach for disseminating some basic information about signed language linguistics with a broader audience. That article can be viewed here: https://thewaggle.wordpress.com/category/wendy-sandler/

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