Sign Languages in Village Communities: Anthropological and Linguistic Insights 9781614512035, 9781614511496

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Sign Languages in Village Communities

Sign Language Typology 4

Editors Marie Coppola Onno Crasborn Ulrike Zeshan Editorial board Sam Lutalo-Kiingi Irit Meir Ronice Müller de Quadros Roland Pfau Adam Schembri Gladys Tang Erin Wilkinson Jun Hui Yang

De Gruyter Mouton · Ishara Press

Sign Languages in Village Communities Anthropological and Linguistic Insights Edited by

Ulrike Zeshan Connie de Vos

De Gruyter Mouton · Ishara Press

ISBN 978-1-61451-203-5 e-ISBN 978-1-61451-149-6 ISSN 2192-5186 e-ISSN 2192-5194 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. ” 2012 Walter de Gruyter, Inc., Boston/Berlin and Ishara Press, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Printing: Hubert & Co. GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen 앝 Printed on acid-free paper 앪 Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com

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Acknowledgements ....................................................................................... 1 Introduction: Demographic, sociocultural, and linguistic variation across rural signing communities Connie de Vos and Ulrike Zeshan ................................................................. 2 Part I. Rural signing varieties: Description, docuPHQWDWLRQDQG¿HOGZRUNSUDFWLFH Being a deaf white anthropologist in Adamorobe: Some ethical and methodological issues Annelies Kusters.......................................................................................... 27 Colour signs in two indigenous sign languages Dany Adone, Anastasia Bauer, Keren Cumberbatch and Elaine L. Maypilama................................................................................... 53 Demarcating generations of signers in the dynamic sociolinguistic landscape of a shared sign-language: The case of the Al-Sayyid Bedouin Shifra Kisch................................................................................................. 87 The Kata Kolok perfective in child signing: Coordination of manual and non-manual components Connie de Vos............................................................................................ 127 The survival of Algerian Jewish Sign Language alongside Israeli Sign Language in Israel Sara Lanesman and Irit Meir.................................................................... 153 6LJQLQJLQWKH$UFWLF([WHUQDOLQÀXHQFHVRQ,QXLW6LJQ/DQJXDJH Joke Schuit ................................................................................................ 181

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An exploration in the domain of time: From Yucatec Maya time gestures to Yucatec Maya Sign Language time signs Olivier Le Guen......................................................................................... 209 Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali Victoria Nyst, Kara Sylla and Moustapha Magassouba ........................... 251 Language ecological change in Ban Khor, Thailand: An ethnographic case study of village sign language endangerment Angela M. Nonaka .................................................................................... 277 :RUNLQJZLWKYLOODJHVLJQODQJXDJHFRPPXQLWLHV'HDI¿HOGZRUN researchers in professional dialogue Hasan Dikyuva, Cesar Ernesto Escobedo Delgado, Sibaji Panda and Ulrike Zeshan ............................................................... 313 3DUW 3UR¿OHVRIVKDUHGVLJQLQJFRPPXQLWLHV $GDPRUREH$GHPRJUDSKLFVRFLROLQJXLVWLFDQGVRFLRFXOWXUDOSUR¿OH Annelies Kusters........................................................................................ 347 $OLSXU6LJQ/DQJXDJH$VRFLROLQJXLVWLFDQGFXOWXUDOSUR¿OH Sibaji Panda .............................................................................................. 353 Algerian Jewish Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch Sara Lanesman and Irit Meir.................................................................... 361 Al-Sayyid: A sociolinguistic Sketch Shifra Kisch............................................................................................... 365 Sociolinguistic sketch of Ban Khor and Ban Khor Sign Language Angela M. Nonaka .................................................................................... 373 Chican Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch Cesar Ernesto Escobedo Delgado ............................................................ 377 .DWD.RORN$QXSGDWHGVRFLROLQJXLVWLFSUR¿OH Connie de Vos............................................................................................ 381

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Sociolinguistic sketch of Konchri Sain Keren Cumberbatch .................................................................................. 387 6RFLROLQJXLVWLFSUR¿OHRI,QXLW6LJQ/DQJXDJH Joke Schuit ................................................................................................ 389 Mardin Sign Language: Signing in a “deaf family” Hasan Dikyuva .......................................................................................... 395