Variation in Indonesian sign language : a typological and sociolinguistic analysis / Nick Palfreyman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palfreyman, Nick, author.

Series:

Sign language typology series ; no. 8.

Sign language typology series ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indonesian Sign Language.

Physical Description:

xix, 348 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Walter de Gruyter Inc., [2019]

Summary:

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods from sign language typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, with findings that have important implications for our understanding of grammaticalisation in sign languages. The book will be of interest to linguists and sociolinguists, including those without prior experience of sign language research, and to all who are curious about the history of Indonesia?s urban sign0community.0Nick Palfreyman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire.

Contents:

Part I Background and research design

2 Analysing variation in sign language p. 9

3 A sociohistorical overview of the sign community p. 29

4 Research design and ethical considerations p. 77

Part II Typological and sociolinguistic analysis

5 The grammatical domain of completion p. 123

6 The grammatical domain of negation p. 173

7 Accounting For variation in Indonesian Sign Language p. 245

Part III Placing findings in the community context

8 Integrating the perspectives of sign community members p. 275.

ISBN:

9781501513398

1501513397

OCLC:

1083593864