Sign Languages in Village Communities
Anthropological and Linguistic Insights
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2012
VII, 413 pages
978-1-61451-149-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Sign Languages in Village Communities
Anthropological and Linguistic Insights
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Ulrike Zeshan and Connie de Vos, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Content
1 - Acknowledgements [Seite 9]
2 - Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities [Seite 10]
3 - Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation and fieldwork practice. [Seite 33]
3.1 - Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues [Seite 35]
3.2 - Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages [Seite 61]
3.3 - Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin [Seite 95]
3.4 - The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components [Seite 135]
3.5 - The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel [Seite 161]
3.6 - Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language [Seite 189]
3.7 - An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs [Seite 217]
3.8 - Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali [Seite 259]
3.9 - Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic case study of village sign language endangerment [Seite 285]
3.10 - Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue [Seite 321]
4 - Part 2. Profiles of shared-signing communities [Seite 353]
4.1 - Adamorobe: A demographic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural profile [Seite 355]
4.2 - Alipur Sign Language: A sociolinguistic and cultural profile [Seite 361]
4.3 - Algerian Jewish Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch [Seite 369]
4.4 - Al-Sayyid: A sociolinguistic Sketch [Seite 373]
4.5 - Sociolinguistic sketch of Ban Khor and Ban Khor Sign Language [Seite 381]
4.6 - Chican Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch [Seite 385]
4.7 - Kata Kolok: An updated sociolinguistic profile [Seite 389]
4.8 - Sociolinguistic sketch of Konchri Sain [Seite 395]
4.9 - Sociolinguistic profile of Inuit Sign Language [Seite 397]
4.10 - Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a "deaf family" [Seite 403]
4.11 - Yolngu Sign Language: A sociolinguistic profile [Seite 409]
5 - Language index [Seite 413]
6 - Subject index [Seite 416]
2 - Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities [Seite 10]
3 - Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, documentation and fieldwork practice. [Seite 33]
3.1 - Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues [Seite 35]
3.2 - Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages [Seite 61]
3.3 - Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin [Seite 95]
3.4 - The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components [Seite 135]
3.5 - The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel [Seite 161]
3.6 - Signing in the Arctic: External influences on Inuit Sign Language [Seite 189]
3.7 - An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs [Seite 217]
3.8 - Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali [Seite 259]
3.9 - Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic case study of village sign language endangerment [Seite 285]
3.10 - Working with village sign language communities: Deaf fieldwork researchers in professional dialogue [Seite 321]
4 - Part 2. Profiles of shared-signing communities [Seite 353]
4.1 - Adamorobe: A demographic, sociolinguistic and sociocultural profile [Seite 355]
4.2 - Alipur Sign Language: A sociolinguistic and cultural profile [Seite 361]
4.3 - Algerian Jewish Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch [Seite 369]
4.4 - Al-Sayyid: A sociolinguistic Sketch [Seite 373]
4.5 - Sociolinguistic sketch of Ban Khor and Ban Khor Sign Language [Seite 381]
4.6 - Chican Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch [Seite 385]
4.7 - Kata Kolok: An updated sociolinguistic profile [Seite 389]
4.8 - Sociolinguistic sketch of Konchri Sain [Seite 395]
4.9 - Sociolinguistic profile of Inuit Sign Language [Seite 397]
4.10 - Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a "deaf family" [Seite 403]
4.11 - Yolngu Sign Language: A sociolinguistic profile [Seite 409]
5 - Language index [Seite 413]
6 - Subject index [Seite 416]
