Integrated monolingualism and audism governing Spanish Sign-Language users’ self-determination in the legal
system
Many legal systems have begun to adjust their social and linguistic practices to accommodate non-dominant social
groups. However, linguistic diversity is often framed as an exception, and interpreters are viewed as a service to address these
exceptions rather than as part of broader structural changes to enable access to justice. This article explores the access to and
participation in the Spanish legal system of Spanish Sign-Language users (SSLUs) who are deaf or heard of hearing. Through
semi-structured interviews with SSLUs, the article elicits their perceptions of the legal field. These data are analyzed from the
perspective of self-determination theory (
Deci and Ryan 1985) to identify how SSLUs’
psychological needs of competence, autonomy, and relatedness are linked to the social, cultural, and economic capital invested and
distributed through social practices. The goal is to clarify how SSLUs’ habitus sustains or resists monolingual and audist
ideologies establishing hierarchies between language communities.
Article outline
- Introduction: The law as cooperation and oppression
- Monolingualism and audism as oppressive ideologies in the Spanish legal system
- Power and self-determination in exploring self-oppression
- Method
- Results and discussion
- Cultural capital governing the self-determined habitus
- Social capital governing self-determination
- Earning social capital
- SLI services in capital investment and ideology construction
- Linking, bonding, and bridging in the legal field
- Economic capital governing self-determination
- Concluding remarks
- Notes
-
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