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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| Place / Publishing House: | Berkeley : : University of California Press,, 2024. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 pages) |
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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.