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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Making Sense
    sub title: Language, Ethics, and Understanding in Deaf Nepal
  name:
    name part: Green, E. Mara
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  type of resource: text
  genre: dictionary
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: US-CA
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
  abstract: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.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, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material world. These features make conversation in natural sign both possible and precarious. Sense-making in natural sign depends on signers' skillful use of resources and on addressees' willingness to engage. Natural sign reveals the labor of sense-making that in more conventional language is carried by shared grammar. Ultimately, this highly original book shows that emergent language is an ethical endeavor, challenging readers to consider what it means, and what it takes, to understand and to be understood.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Representation of Non-English -- Preliminary Definitions of Key Terms -- Introduction -- Part One. Natural Sign and Natural Signers -- 1. Deaf Theory -- 2. Taxonomic Urges -- Part Two. Making Sense -- 3. Semiotics -- 4. Ethics -- 5. Understanding -- Afterword -- Appendix 1. Deaf Population in Maunabudhuk and Bodhe -- Appendix 2. Signing and Sign Communities: English-Language Categories and Logics -- Appendix 3. Actions, Orientations, Consequences -- Appendix 4. Guide to Transcripts -- Appendix 5. Transcripts -- Notes -- References -- Index
  target audience: specialized
  note: E. Mara Green.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    topic: Deaf culture
    geographic: Nepal
  subject:
    topic: Deaf people culture
    geographic: Nepal
  subject:
    topic: Deaf people
    topic: Means of communication
    geographic: Nepal
  subject:
    topic: Deaf people
    geographic: Nepal
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Deaf peopleness
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Nepal
  subject:
    topic: Deafness
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Nepal
  subject:
    topic: Sign language
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Culture sourde
    geographic: Népal
  subject:
    topic: Personnes sourdes
    topic: Moyens de communication
    geographic: Népal
  subject:
    topic: Personnes sourdes
    geographic: Népal
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Surdité
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Népal
  subject:
    topic: Langage par signes
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  classification: HV2471 .G744 2024
  identifier: 9780520399242
  identifier: 0520399242
  identifier: 2023049682
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: DEGRU
    record creation date: 240826
    record change date: 20241018184654.7
    record identifier: in00005507673
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng