Making sense : language, ethics, and understanding in deaf Nepal

Making sense : language, ethics, and understanding in deaf Nepal /

"Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, howeve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, E. Mara, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Sign language > Social aspects.
Deafness > Social aspects > Nepal.
Deaf > Means of communication > Nepal.
Deaf culture > Nepal.
Deaf > Nepal > Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Note on English-language representation of non-English
  • Preliminary definitions of key terms
  • Introduction
  • Deaf theory
  • Taxonomic urges
  • Semiotics
  • Ethics
  • Understanding
  • Afterword
  • Appendix 1 : deaf population in Maunabudhuk and Bodhe
  • Appendix 2 : English-language signing and sign community taxonomies
  • Appendix 3 : actions, orientations, consequences
  • Appendix 4 : guide to transcripts
  • Appendix 5 : transcripts.

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