Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: Cultural, Semiotic, and Communicative Perspectives
Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; orange dj with black lettering, mylar cover; xviii, 542 pp; bw illustrations. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Sunning to dj. Pages are clean and clear. Binding is tight.). Item #184760
ISBN: 9780521360081
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. Contents: Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; Orthographic conventions and descriptive terms; 1. Introduction; 2. Aboriginal sign languages observed: a history; 3. Aboriginal sign languages observed: geographical review; 4. North central desert background; 5. Sign structures; 6. Sign forming and sign meaning; 7. Sign organization and word structure; 8. Signing spoken language grammar; 9. Discourse in sign and speech; 10. Signing and speaking simultaneously; 11. Signs of kinship; 12. Comparing Aboriginal sign languages; 13. Australian Aboriginal sign languages and other semiotic systems; 14. Aboriginal interaction and Aboriginal sign language; Appendix I. Sign notation symbols; Appendix II. Two versions of a Warlpiri story; References; Index of signs; General index.
OCLC: 17916504
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