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Differences in Verbal Description of Music Listening Experiences between College Students with Total Blindness and Typical Vision

Park Hye Young 1 Hyun Ju Chong 1 Sunhi Bak 2

1이화여자대학교
2순천향대학교

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to analyze the types of language used by college students with and without visual impairments. Participants of the in-depth interviews were students at universities in Seoul and Chungcheong-do. Ten participants were visually impaired and the other ten were normal sighted. Content analysis of the in-depth interviews revealed the following implications. First, visually oriented verbalism is observed among visually impaired people even when they can experience the same level of musical experience with normal sighted people. Highly observed is verbalism by contextual information which is naturally obtained in daily life, rather than verbalism by the media, or by learning. Second, K-LIWC was employed to examine the types of verbal description between comparing groups, high ratio of use of pronouns in the visually impaired was observed as well as that of the description of negative emotions. Third, compared to normal sighted people, visually impaired people more frequently use affective description and description via senses except vision. Through non-vision senses that substitute or compensate visual impairment, the visually impaired understand and express emotions that the normal sighted feel through vision. Last, in regards to episodic memory and situational depiction, normal sighted people frequently narrate episodic memories, while visually impaired people rather focus on situational depiction.

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