Zeshan / de Vos Sign Languages in Village Communities

Anthropological and Linguistic Insights
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61451-149-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 420 Seiten

Reihe: Sign Language Typology [SLT]ISSN

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 first compilation of a substantial number of different "village sign languages". Written by leading experts in the field, the volume uniquely combines anthropological and linguistic insights, looking at both the social dynamics and the linguistic structures in these village communities. The book includes primary data from eleven different signing communities across the world, including results from Jamaica, India, Turkey, Thailand, and Bali.
     All known village sign languages are endangered, usually because of pressure from larger urban sign languages, and some have died out already. Ironically, it is often the success of the larger sign language communities in urban centres, their recognition and subsequent spread, which leads to the endangerment of these small minority sign languages. The book addresses this specific type of language endangerment, documentation strategies, and other ethical issues pertaining to these sign languages on the basis of first-hand experiences by Deaf fieldworkers.

Zielgruppe

Institutional Libraries, Students and Researchers of Sign Languages, Linguistic Typology, Language Endangerment and Revitalization, Language Documentation, Contact Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropologists; Deaf Studies and Gesture

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zeshan, Ulrike

de Vos, Connie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;9
2;Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities;10
3;Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation and fieldwork practice.;33
3.1;Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues;35
3.2;Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages;61
3.3;Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin;95
3.4;The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components;135
3.5;The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel;161
3.6;Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language;189
3.7;An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs;217
3.8;Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali;259
3.9;Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic case study of village sign language endangerment;285
3.10;Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue;321
4;Part 2. Profiles of shared-signing communities;353
4.1;Adamorobe: A demographic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural profile;355
4.2;Alipur Sign Language: A sociolinguistic and cultural profile;361
4.3;Algerian Jewish Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch;369
4.4;Al-Sayyid: A sociolinguistic Sketch;373
4.5;Sociolinguistic sketch of Ban Khor and Ban Khor Sign Language;381
4.6;Chican Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch;385
4.7;Kata Kolok: An updated sociolinguistic profile;389
4.8;Sociolinguistic sketch of Konchri Sain;395
4.9;Sociolinguistic profile of Inuit Sign Language;397
4.10;Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a “deaf family”;403
4.11;Yolngu Sign Language: A sociolinguistic profile;409
5;Language index;413
6;Subject index;416

Über Autor(innen)

Zeshan, Ulrike
Ulrike Zeshan and Connie de Vos, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Ulrike Zeshan and Connie de Vos, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK.