Seeing Signs: Linguistic Ethnography in the Study of Homesign Systems in Guatemala

Horton, Laura

doi:10.1353/sls.2020.0022

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“…Hearing siblings may be some of the primary individuals communicating with the deaf child. Some researchers report that hearing family members, including hearing siblings, use manual communication without speech when communicating directly to the deaf individual (Hou 2016;Horton 2018;Goico 2019b). Others have noted that the hearing siblings closest in age to the deaf individual have the highest levels of comprehension in the manual modality (Carrigan & Coppola 2017).…”

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“…Using this approach, the new generation of scholarship has highlighted the social lives of deaf individuals with constrained access to linguistic resources through sustained ethnographic fieldwork. This research has included the documentation of deaf individuals actively involved in community activities (Neveu 2019;Goico 2020;Horton 2020), incorporating cultural practices into their signing (Haviland 2013;Green 2014Green , 2022, moving across various communities (Moriarty Harrelson 2019), and maintaining relationships with hearing (Fusellier-Souza 2006; Reed 2020) and deaf individuals (Haviland 2016;Hou 2016;Horton 2020). In addition, this approach has called into question how 'language' is defined and delineated, challenging the notion of bounded 'full' languages.…”

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“She did it!”: Meaning-making in interaction between deaf and hearing siblings in Peru

Goico

2024

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In this article, I argue that centering multimodal practices is important in the study of human communication and sociality, and becomes particularly relevant in the presence of asymmetries in language access. Using data collected as part of a two-year linguistic ethnography of deaf youth in Iquitos, Peru, I demonstrate how three siblings engage in extended dispute routines even in the face of sensory and communicative asymmetries. The microanalysis of video-recorded sibling interaction sheds light on their use of diverse multimodal resources to navigate the common interactional work of securing an interlocutor, coordinating attention, managing misunderstandings, and establishing shared references (Sidnell 2007, 2009). Not only do the siblings utilize multimodal resources to carry out the interactional project of making an accusation and building alliances, but they also ‘co-operatively’ engage in building a shared semiotic repertoire (C. Goodwin 2018). (Deaf, sign language, linguistic ethnography, multimodality, semiotic repertoire, Peru)*

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“She did it!”: Meaning-making in interaction between deaf and hearing siblings in Peru

Goico

2024

Lang. Soc.

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“…By reorienting the researcher lens to the interactional and social processes of language acquisition and emergence, an LE approach problematizes this discrete categorization system as well as the notion of a cline from less to more language-like (see, e.g. Kisch, 2008;Hou, 2016;Horton, 2020;Hou & de Vos, 2021).…”

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Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies

Hodge

Goico

2022

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…Language, however, is the product of human linguistic capacity in the context of a community, and signing communities emerge only in the presence of a critical mass of deaf people ( 15 , 16 ). Signing communities vary in size and structure and can be as small as individual families with multiple deaf members ( 17 , 18 ).…”

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Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages

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Geraci

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Sign languages are naturally occurring languages. As such, their emergence and spread reflect the histories of their communities. However, limitations in historical recordkeeping and linguistic documentation have hindered the diachronic analysis of sign languages. In this work, we used computational phylogenetic methods to study family structure among 19 sign languages from deaf communities worldwide. We used phonologically coded lexical data from contemporary languages to infer relatedness and suggest that these methods can help study regular form changes in sign languages. The inferred trees are consistent in key respects with known historical information but challenge certain assumed groupings and surpass analyses made available by traditional methods. Moreover, the phylogenetic inferences are not reducible to geographic distribution but do affirm the importance of geopolitical forces in the histories of human languages.

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Seeing Signs: Linguistic Ethnography in the Study of Homesign Systems in Guatemala

Cited by 13 publications

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“She did it!”: Meaning-making in interaction between deaf and hearing siblings in Peru

“She did it!”: Meaning-making in interaction between deaf and hearing siblings in Peru

Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies

Computational phylogenetics reveal histories of sign languages

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