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- Title
Review Essay on Sign Language in Papua New Guinea, by Adam Kendon. (John Benjamins, 2020).
- Authors
Padden, Carol A.
- Abstract
Characteristically, Kendon was intrigued by the presence of signers using a language in the same modality as gesture and asked Waipili if he could record their signing on film. Kendon describes the Enga spoken language as "from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province" in central Papua New Guinea, constituting one of the largest groups of languages in the country, at about 180,000 users. In an example - which marks the passage of time in an academic field - Kendon replaced all references to "deaf-mutes" and "deaf-mute sign language" with a more acceptable reference to a ' I primary i (emphasis added) sign language'. By changing the term to "primary sign language", Kendon recognizes that what sign languages have in common is that they are used by and with individuals for whom they are primary modes of communication.
- Subjects
PAPUA New Guinea; SIGN language; GESTURE; AMERICAN Sign Language; SPEECH &; gesture; ORAL communication; NATIVE language; DEAF children
- Publication
Oceania, 2020, Vol 90, Issue 3, p330
- ISSN
0029-8077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ocea.5284