UID:
edocfu_9958353397102883
Format:
1 online resource (420p.)
ISBN:
9781614511496
Series Statement:
Sign Language Typology [SLT] ; 4
Content:
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.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities --
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Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation, and fieldwork practice --
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Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues --
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Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages --
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Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin --
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The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components --
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The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel --
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Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language --
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An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs --
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Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali --
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Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic endangerment --
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Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue --
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Language index --
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Subject index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-1-61451-203-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781614511496
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511496
