Metasemiotic regimentation in the standardization of Nepali sign language

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 192-213

  Hoffmann Dilloway, Erika ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

d Deaf; Language ideologies; Nepal; Semiotic indeterminacy; Standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 57049156014     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00019.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Acharya, Jayaraj 1991 A Descriptive Grammar of Nepali and an Analyzed Corpus. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press.
2. Agha, Asif 2005 Semiosis Across Encounters. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):1-15.
3. Bauman, Richard 2005 Commentary: Indirect Indexicality, Identity, Performance: Dialogic Observations. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):145-150.
4. Bechter, Frank 2008 The Deaf Convert Culture and its Lessons for Deaf Theory. In Open Your Eyes: Deaf Studies Talking. H-Dirkson Bauman ed. Pp. 60-82. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
5. Burghart, Richard 1984 The Formation of the Concept of the Nation-State in Nepal. Journal of Asian Studies 44(1):101-125.
6. Ellingson, Ter 1991 The Nepal Constitution of 1990: Preliminary Considerations. Himalayan Research Bulletin 11:1-3.
7. Emmorey, Karen 2002 Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights from Sign Language Research. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
8. Gal, Susan 1998 Multiplicity and Contention Among Language Ideologies:A Commentary. In Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Bambi Schieffelin, Kathryn Woolard, and Paul Kroskrity, eds. Pp. 317-331. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
9. Gellner, David 2005 Ethnic Rights and Politics in Nepal. Himalayan Journal of Sociology and Anthropology 2L:1-17.
10. Guneratne, Arjun 1998 Modernization, the State, and the Construction of a Tharu Identity in Nepal. The Journal of Asian Studies 57(3):749-773.
11. Haugen, Einar 1996 Dialect, Language, Nation. American Anthropologist 68(4):922-935.
12. Hoffmann, Erika 2008 Standardization Beyond Form: Ideologies, Institutions, and the Semiotics of Nepali Sign Language. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, The University of Michigan.
13. Irvine, Judith 2005 Knots and Tears in the Interdiscursive Fabric: A Commentary. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):72-80.
14. Irvine, Judith and Susan Gal 2000 Language Ideology and Linguistic Differentiation. In Regimes of Language: Ideologies, Polities, and Identities. Paul Kroskrity, ed. Pp. 35-84. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.
15. Keane, Webb 2003 Semiotics and the Social Analysis of Material Things. Language and Communication 23(3-4):409-425.
16. Kegl, Judith, Ann Senghas, and Marie Coppola 1999 Creation Through Contact: Sign Language Emergence and Sign Language Change in Nicaragua. In Comparative Grammatical Change: The Intersection of Language Acquisition, Creole Genesis, and Diachronic Syntax. Michel DeGraff, ed. Pp. 179-237. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
17. Lowenbraum, Sheila, Karen Appelman, and Judith Callahan 1980 Teaching the Hearing Impaired through Total Communication. Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill.
18. Lucas, Ceil and Clayon Valli 1989 Language Contact in the American Deaf Community. In The Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community. Ceil Lucas, ed. Pp. 11-40. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
19. Milroy, James and Lesley Milroy 1999 Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English. London: Routledge.
20. Milroy, James 2000 Language Ideologies and the Consequences of Standardization. Journal of Sociolinguistics 5(4):530-550.
21. Monaghan, Leila 2003 A World's Eye View: Deaf Cultures in Global Perspective. In Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities. Leila Monaghan, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura, and Graham Turner, eds. Pp. 1-24. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
22. Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura, and Graham Turner 2003 ManyWays to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
23. Nover, Steve 1995 Politics and Language: American Sign Language and English in Deaf Education. In Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Volume 1. Ceil Lucas, ed. Pp. 109-163. Washington D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
24. Padden, Carole 1983 Interaction of Morphology and Syntax in American Sign Language. Ph.D. dissertation. Department of Linguistics, University of California, San Diego.
25. Parmentier, Richard 1993 The Semiotic Regimentation of Social Life. Semiotica 95:357-395.
26. Peirce, Charles Saunders 1931 Collected Papers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
27. Ramsey, Claire 1989 Language Planning in Deaf Education. In the Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community. Ceil Lucas, ed. Pp. 123-146. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
28. Rumsey, Alan 1990 Wording, Meaning, and Linguistic Ideology. American Anthropologist 91(2):346-361.
29. Schieffelin, Bambi, Kathryn Woolard, and Paul Kroskrity 1998 Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
30. Silverstein, Michael 1981 The Limits of Awareness. Sociolinguistics Working Paper No. 84. Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.
31. Silverstein, Michael 1993 Metapragmatic Discourse and Metapragmatic Function. In Reflexive Language: Reported Speech and Metapragmatics. John Lucy, ed. Pp. 33-58. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
32. Skinner, Debra and Dorothy Holland 1996 Schools and the Cultural Production of the Educated Person in a Nepalese Hill Community. In The Cultural Production of the Educated Person. Bradley Levinson, Douglas Foley, and Dorothy Holland, eds. Pp. 273-300. Albany: State University of New York Press.
33. Talmy, Leonard 2003 The Representation of Spatial Structure in Spoken and Signed Language. In Perspectives on Classifier Constructions. Karen Emmorey, ed. Pp. 169-196. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
34. Taylor, Irene 1997 Buddhas in Disguise: Deaf People in Nepal. San Diego, CA: Dawnsign Press.
35. Woolard, Kathryn 1998a Language Ideology as a Field of Inquiry. In Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory. Bambi Schieffelin, Kathryn Woolard, and Paul Kroskrity, eds. Pp. 3-47. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
36. Woolard, Kathryn 1998b Simultaneity and Bivalency and Strategies in Bilingualism. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 8(1):3-29.
37. Wrigley, Owen 1996 The Politics of Deafness. Gallaudet University Press: Washington D.C.