Sign languages in village communities : anthropological and linguistic insights

Sign languages in village communities anthropological and linguistic insights

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 sign languages represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality, and the book is the fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Zeshan, Ulrike (-), Vos, Connie de
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton c2012.
Berlin ; Boston : [2012]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Sign Language Typology [SLT]
Materias:
Sign language > Cross-cultural studies.
Deaf > Means of communication > Cross-cultural studies.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425893606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities / Vos, Connie De / Zeshan, Ulrike
  • Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation, and fieldwork practice
  • Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues / Kusters, Annelies
  • Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages / Adone, Dany / Bauer, Anastasia / Cumberbatch, Keren / Maypilama, Elaine L.
  • Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin / Kisch, Shifra
  • The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components / Vos, Connie de
  • The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel / Lanesman, Sara / Meir, Irit
  • Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language / Schuit, Joke
  • An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs / Le Guen, Olivier
  • Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali / Nyst, Victoria / Sylla, Kara / Magassouba, Moustapha
  • Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic endangerment / Nonaka, Angela M.
  • Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue / Dikyuva, Hasan
  • Language index
  • Subject index

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