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Sign languages in village communities : anthropological and linguistic insights / edited by Ulrike Zeshan, Connie de Vos.
LIBRA P117 .Z47 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zeshan, Ulrike.
- Series:
- Sign language typology series ; 4.
- Sign language typology series, 2192-5194 ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sign language--Cross-cultural studies.
- Sign language.
- Deaf people--Language.
- Deaf people.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 413 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton ; Nijmegen : Ishara, 2012.
- Summary:
- The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These "village sign languages" represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality. With analyses and primary data from eleven different rural communities, the volume represents the first concerted effort by leading experts in both anthropology and linguistics to capture the social dynamics of "deaf villages". The chapters address pertinent issues in contemporary linguistics, such as cross-modal contact situations, typological diversity across sign languages and the impact of language modality on linguistic structure. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation and fieldwork practice
- Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues / Annelies Kusters Kusters, Annelies 27
- Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages / Dany Adone Adone, Dany, Anastasia Bauer Bauer, Anastasia, Keren Cumberbatch Cumberbatch, Keren, Elaine L. Maypilama Maypilama, Elaine L. 53
- Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin / Shifra Kisch Kisch, Shifra 87
- The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components / Connie de Vos Vos, Connie de 127
- The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel / Sara Lanesman Lanesman, Sara, Irit Meir Meir, Irit 153
- Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language / Joke Schuit Schuit, Joke 181
- An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs / Olivier Le Guen Guen, Olivier Le 209
- Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali / Victoria Nyst Nyst, Victoria, Kara Sylla Sylla, Kara, Moustapha Magassouba Magassouba, Moustapha 251
- Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic case study of village sign language endangerment / Angela M. Nonaka Nonaka, Angela M. 277
- Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue / Hasan Dikyuva Dikyuva, Hasan, Cesar Ernesto Escobedo Delgado Delgado, Cesar Ernesto Escobedo, Sibaji Panda Panda, Sibaji, Ulrike Zeshan Zeshan, Ulrike 313
- Part 2 Profiles of shared-signing communities
- Adamorobe: A demographic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural profile / Annelies Kusters Kusters, Annelies 347
- Alipur Sign Language: A sociolinguistic and cultural profile / Sibaji Panda Panda, Sibaji 353
- Algerian Jewish Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch / Sara Lanesman Lanesman, Sara, Irit Meir Meir, Irit 361
- Al-Sayyid: A sociolinguistic Sketch / Shifra Kisch Kisch, Shifra 365
- Sociolinguistic sketch of Ban Khor and Ban Khor Sign Language / Angela M. Nonaka Nonaka, Angela M. 373
- Chican Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch / Cesar Ernesto Escobedo Delgado Delgado, Cesar Ernesto Escobedo 377
- Kata Kolok: An updated sociolinguistic profile / Connie de Vos Vos, Connie de 381
- Sociolinguistic sketch of Konchri Sain / Keren Cumberbatch Cumberbatch, Keren 387
- Sociolinguistic profile of Inuit Sign Language / Joke Schuit Schuit, Joke 389
- Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a "deaf family" / Hasan Dikyuva Dikyuva, Hasan 395
- Yolngu Sign Language: A sociolinguistic profile / Elaine L. Maypilama Maypilama, Elaine L., Dany Adone Adone, Dany 401.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1614512035
- 9781614512035
- OCLC:
- 816279819
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