Many Names for Mother: The Ethno-Linguistic Politics of Deafness in Nepal

Hoffmann‐Dilloway, Erika

doi:10.1080/00856401.2010.520652

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“…In addition, many of their responses are still increased rather than decreased by semantic priming (congruent > incongruent, rather than incongruent > congruent). Similar responses with reversed polarity have previously been observed in 12-month-old children but disappear soon thereafter as the semantic priming mechanisms mature and the canonical N400 emerges (Friedrich and Friederici 2005;2010). In a group of 12-to 18-month-olds, Travis et al (2011) did not find such effects but instead found the N400 to be mostly adult like.…”

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“…However, research in this area is limited in quantity and scope, mainly because most North American and European deaf children begin receiving special services and experiencing natural language (spoken or signed) by the time they enter school. Deaf individuals without childhood language experience are commonplace in countries where they grow up in isolation from one another and services for deaf people are limited as for example in Cambodia or Nepal (Hoffmann-Dilloway 2010;Dittmeier 2014). Furthermore, most studies on late L1 learners have used a retrospective paradigm studying adults whose onset of L1 acquisition began at a variety of ages, but who have used sign language for many years.…”

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Neural Language Processing in Adolescent First-Language Learners: Longitudinal Case Studies in American Sign Language

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Leonard

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Cereb. Cortex

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One key question in neurolinguistics is the extent to which the neural processing system for language requires linguistic experience during early life to develop fully. We conducted a longitudinal anatomically constrained magnetoencephalography (aMEG) analysis of lexico-semantic processing in 2 deaf adolescents who had no sustained language input until 14 years of age, when they became fully immersed in American Sign Language. After 2 to 3 years of language, the adolescents' neural responses to signed words were highly atypical, localizing mainly to right dorsal frontoparietal regions and often responding more strongly to semantically primed words (Ferjan Ramirez N, Leonard MK, Torres C, Hatrak M, Halgren E, Mayberry RI. 2014. Neural language processing in adolescent first-language learners. Cereb Cortex. 24 (10): 2772-2783). Here, we show that after an additional 15 months of language experience, the adolescents' neural responses remained atypical in terms of polarity. While their responses to less familiar signed words still showed atypical localization patterns, the localization of responses to highly familiar signed words became more concentrated in the left perisylvian language network. Our findings suggest that the timing of language experience affects the organization of neural language processing; however, even in adolescence, language representation in the human brain continues to evolve with experience.

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Neural Language Processing in Adolescent First-Language Learners: Longitudinal Case Studies in American Sign Language

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Leonard

Davenport³

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“…Deaf Studies has so far mainly discussed the history, anthropology and politics of deafness and d/Deaf people in Europe, the United States and other places in the Global North. 1 Only recently have researchers begun to offer in-depth ethnographies of and with deaf people worldwide, including the Global South (for example, Friedner 2015 ; Hoffmann-Dilloway 2010 , 2016 ; Kusters 2014 ; Nakamura 2006 ; Nonaka 2014 ). No comparable work has been carried out in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), 2 home to an estimated 20 million deaf and hard-of-hearing people (CDPF – China Disabled Persons’ Federation 2008 ).…”

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‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China

Hofer¹,

Sagli

2017

Disability & Society

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The People’s Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively discusses findings on sign language use, education and state welfare policies. The situation in these domains is analysed through the framework of the ‘civilising project’, coined by Harrell, and its impacts on the d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing among ethnic minorities are shown. For instance, through the promotion of Chinese and Chinese Sign Language over and above the use of local sign and written languages as well as through education and the medicalisation of disabilities.

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“…(Consequently, d/Deaf Nepalis born into non-Hindu families can be less stigmatized by the notion of ritual pollution, but this is not always the case. I have explored this issue in past work(Hoffmann-Dilloway 2010)). While the Nepali government revised the Muluki Ain in 1963 to remove the use of caste as an officially sanctioned method of structuring social relations, the concept of ritual pollution continues to significantly affect the ways in which many Nepalis engage with one another.…”

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Hoffmann‐Dilloway¹

2022

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This article analyzes gestural interactions between hearing and d/Deaf Nepalis to argue that local understandings of the consequences of these engagements make visible ways of ideologizing gesture that may be obscured by the gestural typologies widely used by scholars. In Nepal, d/Deafness is associated with ritual pollution that can be shared across persons. Consequently, the use of gesture in a communicative interaction can both presuppose the presence of a polluted d/Deaf body and creatively index the transmission of that pollution to a hearing interlocutor. By the same token, gesturally engaging with Deaf persons can index “modern” rejection of belief in ritual pollution on the part of the hearing participant. While many scholarly typologies of gesture focus on form and decontextualized reference, the pragmatic effects of gesture derived from and contributing to differently positioned personhoods are more significant in local ideologies in Nepal.

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Many Names for Mother: The Ethno-Linguistic Politics of Deafness in Nepal

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Neural Language Processing in Adolescent First-Language Learners: Longitudinal Case Studies in American Sign Language

Neural Language Processing in Adolescent First-Language Learners: Longitudinal Case Studies in American Sign Language

‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China

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