Making Sense : Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal

Making Sense Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal

"Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, howeve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, E. Mara (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press 2024.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Sign language > Social aspects.
Deafness > Social aspects > Nepal.
Deaf people > Means of communication > Nepal.
Deaf culture > Nepal.
Deaf people > Nepal > Social life and customs.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817319806719
Table of Contents:
  • Note on English-language representation of non-English
  • Preliminary definitions of key terms
  • Introduction
  • Deaf theory
  • Taxonomic urges
  • Semiotics
  • Ethics
  • Understanding
  • Afterword
  • Appendix 1 : deaf population in Maunabudhuk and Bodhe
  • Appendix 2 : English-language signing and sign community taxonomies
  • Appendix 3 : actions, orientations, consequences
  • Appendix 4 : guide to transcripts
  • Appendix 5 : transcripts.

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