Sign languages of Aboriginal Australia : cultural, semiotic and communicative perspectives / Adam Kendon
- Bib ID:
- 392747
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Kendon, Adam
- Description:
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- Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1988
- xviii, 542 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0521360080
- Summary:
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Geographical extent of sign language in Australia; structure of signs, representation of grammar and morphology and relation to spoken language for Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, Kaytetye, Warumungu, Warlmanpa, Mudbura and Djingili; use of signing during speech bans for male initiation or mourning, simultaneous sign and spoken language used by older women; kinship signs; comparison of sign languages in study area, and with other semiotic systems.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 513-528.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- Sign language
- Sign language
- Mudburra language (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Communications - Nonverbal - Sign language and gestures
- Kaytetye / Kaytej language (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Arrernte / Aranda people (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Warumungu language (C18) (NT SE53-01)
- Language - Linguistics - Grammar and syntax
- Warumungu people (C18) (NT SE53-10)
- Warlmanpa people (C17) (NT SE53-10)
- Kaytetye / Kaytej people (C13) (NT SF53-06)
- Arrernte / Aranda language (C8) (NT SG53-02)
- Ceremonies - Initiation
- Mudburra people (C25) (NT SE53-05)
- Warlpiri people (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Jingulu / Djingili / Jingili people (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Social organisation - Kinship - Kinship terms
- Death - Mourning
- Anmatyerre / Anmatyerr people (C8.1) (NT SF53-09)
- Death - Mortuary / funeral ceremonies
- Warlpiri language (C15) (NT SF52-04)
- Jingulu / Djingili / Jingili language (C22) (NT SE53-06)
- Warlmanpa language (C17) (NT SE53-10)
- Anmatyerre / Anmatyerr language (C8.1) (NT SF53-09)
- Language - Sociolinguistics - Secret and special languages
- Northern Territory - Central NT
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