Variation in Indonesian Sign Language : : A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis / / Nick Palfreyman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Palfreyman, Nick,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Sign Language Typology [SLT] ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXI, 348 p.)

This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods from sign language typology and Variationist Sociolinguistics, with findings that have important implications for our understanding of grammaticalisation in sign languages. The book will be of interest to linguists and sociolinguists, including those without prior experience of sign language research, and to all who are curious about the history of Indonesia’s urban sign community. Nick Palfreyman is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of informants -- Transcription conventions -- Abbreviations for sign languages -- Map of Indonesia -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Background and research design -- 2 Analysing variation in sign language -- 3 A sociohistorical overview of the sign community -- 4 Research design and ethical considerations -- Part II: Typological and sociolinguistic analysis -- 5 The grammatical domain of completion -- 6 The grammatical domain of negation -- 7 Accounting for variation in Indonesian Sign Language -- Part III: Placing findings in the community context -- 8 Integrating the perspectives of sign community members -- Appendix 1 – The naming and delineation of sign languages -- Appendix 2 – Coding scheme for completion and negation -- Bibliography -- Index of signs in the text -- Language index -- Subject Index