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Author Zeshan, Ulrike.

Title Sign Languages in Village Communities : Anthropological and Linguistic Insights.

Imprint Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (422 pages)
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Series Sign Language Typology [SLT]
Sign Language Typology SLT.
Note Print version record.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities; Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation and fieldwork practice.; Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues; Colour signs in two Indigenous sign languages; Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin; The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components.
The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language; An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs; Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali; Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic case study of village sign language endangerment; Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue; Part 2. Profiles of shared-signing communities.
Adamorobe: A demographic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural profileAlipur Sign Language: A sociolinguistic and cultural profile; Algerian Jewish Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch; Al-Sayyid: A sociolinguistic Sketch; Sociolinguistic sketch of Ban Khor and Ban Khor Sign Language; Chican Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch; Kata Kolok: An updated sociolinguistic profile; Sociolinguistic sketch of Konchri Sain; Sociolinguistic profile of Inuit Sign Language; Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a "deaf family"; Yolngu Sign Language: A sociolinguistic profile; Language index; Subject index.
Summary 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.
Language English.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Sign language -- Cross-cultural studies.
Deaf -- Language.
Langage par signes -- Études transculturelles.
Personnes sourdes -- Langage.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Sign Language.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
Deaf -- Language
Sign language
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Added Author De Vos, Connie.
Added Title Sign Language Typology [SLT]
Sign Language Typology
Subseries Of: (CKB)3390000000063279
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN
Other Form: Print version: Zeshan, Ulrike. Sign Languages in Village Communities. Boston : De Gruyter, 2012 (DLC) 2013409535
ISBN 1614512035
9781614512035
9781614511496
1614511497
1283857073
9781283857079
Standard No. 10.1515/9781614511496 doi
DEBBG BV041910091
DEBBG BV043038136
DEBBG BV044164035
DEBSZ 421283807
DEBSZ 431128006
DEBSZ 435480626
DKDLA 820120-katalog:999910114105765

 
    
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