Sign language in Papua New Guinea : a primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province

Sign language in Papua New Guinea : a primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province /

"This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed d...

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Main Author: Kendon, Adam (Author)
Other Authors: Wilcox, Sherman (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020
Subjects:
Papua New Guinea Sign Language.
Deaf > Means of communication > Papua New Guinea > Enga Province.
Sign language.
Sign Language
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Sign Language in Papua New Guinea
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Preface
  • Films used in the analysis
  • Conventions for signs and utterance examples: Conventions followed in referring to signs in the text and in the presentation of examples of signed utterances
  • Introduction
  • 0.1 Ethnographic status of the sign language
  • 0.2 The corpus
  • 0.2.1 EKD I, II
  • 0.2.2 EKD III
  • 0.2.3 EKD IV. 1
  • 0.2.4 EKD IV. 2
  • 0.2.5 Additional material
  • 0.3 Procedures of analysis
  • 0.3.1 Preparation of the films and the apparatus used
  • 0.3.2 Obtaining a gloss
  • 1. General properties of signs
  • 2. Processes of sign formation
  • 2.1 The formation of Enga signs
  • 2.1.1 The formation of manual signs
  • 2.1.1.1 Locus of articulation
  • 2.1.1.2 Hand configurations
  • 2.1.1.3 Movement
  • 2.2 Comparison of aspects of Enga sign formation with that of other sign languages
  • 2.3 Combined action signs
  • 2.3.1 Trunk action
  • 2.3.2 Head action
  • 2.3.3 Facial action
  • 2.3.4 Mouth action
  • 2.4 Signs for bodily feelings and emotional state
  • 2.5 Facial signs
  • 3. Iconicity: How signs relate to their referents
  • 3.1 Processes of signification
  • 3.2 Base realization and feature selection
  • 3.2.1 Presenting
  • 3.2.2 Pointing
  • 3.2.3 Characterizing
  • 3.2.3.1 Enactment
  • 3.2.3.2 Body modeling
  • 3.2.3.3 Virtual depiction
  • 3.3 How the base relates to the referent
  • 3.3.1 Presenting signs
  • 3.3.2 Pointing signs
  • 3.3.3 Characterizing signs: Enactment
  • 3.3.3.1 Mimetic enactment signs
  • 3.3.3.2 Analogic enactment signs
  • 3.3.4 Characterizing signs realized by modeling, sketching, and measuring
  • 3.3.5 Conclusions
  • 3.4 Sign realization devices in two unrelated sign languages
  • 4. On the uses of pointing
  • 4.1 Pronominal reference
  • 4.2 Spatial reference
  • 4.3 Moving points
  • 4.4 Nonspatial pointing
  • 4.5 Anaphoric uses of pointing
  • 4.6 Discussion
  • 5. Concurrent action
  • 5.1 Simultaneous signing
  • 5.2 'Affixual' actions
  • 5.3 Sustained concurrent action
  • 5.3.1 Bracketing functions of concurrent action
  • 5.3.2 Metacommunicative functions of concurrent action
  • 5.3.3 Supplementing functions
  • 5.3.4 Display of current attitude
  • 6. Aspects of discourse construction
  • 6.1 Phrasal juncture
  • 6.2 The sequential.arrangement of signs in phrases
  • 6.3 How subjects and objects are related to their verbs
  • 6.4 The handling of temporal reference
  • 6.5 Questions
  • 6.5.1 Manual question signs
  • The double palm presentation
  • Single upward lateral hand flip
  • Where?
  • 6.5.2 Facial question markers
  • 6.5.3 Place of the question marker in the sign sequence
  • 6.5.4 Termination of question utterances
  • 6.5.5 Discussion: Kinesic features of questioning
  • 7. Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendix: Signs from the Upper Lagaip Valley (Enga) described
  • Description of signs
  • Signs for bodily feeling
  • Signs for feelings and emotions

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