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Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas


Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas


Sign Language Typology [SLT], Band 9 1. Aufl.

von: Olivier Le Guen, Josefina Safar, Marie Coppola

139,95 €

Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 23.11.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9781501504846
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 462

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<p>This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to the gestures produced in the surrounding communities of hearing individuals. </p>
<p><br><strong>Contents</strong> </p>
<p>Acknowledgements </p>
<p>Olivier Le Guen, Marie Coppola and Josefina Safar<br>Introduction: How Emerging Sign Languages in the Americas contributes to the study of linguistics and (emerging) sign languages </p>
<p><br><strong>Part I: Emerging sign languages of the Americas. Descriptions and analysis</strong> </p>
<p>John Haviland<br>Signs, interaction, coordination, and gaze: interactive foundations of “Z”—an emerging (sign) language from Chiapas, Mexico </p>
<p>Laura Horton<br>Representational strategies in shared homesign systems from Nebaj, Guatemala </p>
<p>Josefina Safar and Rodrigo Petatillo Chan<br>Strategies of noun-verb distinction in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages </p>
<p>Emmanuella Martinod, Brigitte Garcia and Ivani Fusellier<br>A typological perspective on the meaningful handshapes in the emerging sign languages on Marajó Island (Brazil) </p>
<p>Ben Braithwaite<br>Emerging sign languages in the Caribbean </p>
<p>Olivier Le Guen, Rebeca Petatillo and Rita (Rossy) Kinil Canché<br>Yucatec Maya multimodal interaction as the basis for Yucatec Maya Sign Language </p>
<p>Marie Coppola<br>Gestures, homesign, sign language: Cultural and social factors driving lexical conventionalization </p>
<p><br><strong>Part II: Sociolinguistic sketches</strong> </p>
<p>John B. Haviland<br>Zinacantec family homesign (or “Z”) </p>
<p>Laura Horton<br>A sociolinguistic sketch of deaf individuals and families from Nebaj, Guatemala </p>
<p>Josefina Safar and Olivier Le Guen<br>Yucatec Maya Sign Language(s): A sociolinguistic overview </p>
<p>Emmanuella Martinod, Brigitte Garcia and Ivani Fusellier<br>Sign Languages on Marajó Island (Brazil) </p>
<p>Ben Braithwaite<br>Sociolinguistic sketch of Providence Island Sign Language </p>
<p>Kristian Ali and Ben Braithwaite<br>Bay Islands Sign Language: A Sociolinguistic Sketch </p>
<p>Marie Coppola<br>Sociolinguistic sketch: Nicaraguan Sign Language and Homesign Systems in Nicaragua </p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>Olivier Le Guen</strong>, CIESAS, Mexico; <strong>Josefina Safar</strong>, Stockholm University, Sweden; <strong>Marie Coppola</strong>, University of Connecticut, USA.</p>

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