We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Metasemiotic Regimentation in the Standardization of Nepali Sign Language.
- Authors
Hoffmann-Dilloway, Erika
- Abstract
Both the linguistic forms attended to and the ways in which they are linked to the social vary within and across language standardization projects. In addition, it cannot be assumed that people will notice the same indexical connections between linguistic forms and social structures or rationalize them in the same ways. An analysis of the project to standardize Nepali Sign Language highlights the fact that it is therefore necessary to account for the processes by which standardization projects attempt to reduce variation not only in the formal properties of language but also in the wider semiotic interpretations of those forms.[Nepal, d/Deaf, standardization, language ideologies, semiotic indeterminacy]
- Subjects
NEPAL; LINGUISTICS; STANDARD language; SOCIAL structure; NEPALI language
- Publication
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 2, p192
- ISSN
1055-1360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1548-1395.2008.00019.x