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Papers by John Haviland
Proper citation and attribution Any use of the materials should be acknowledged in publications, ... more Proper citation and attribution Any use of the materials should be acknowledged in publications, presentations and other public materials. Entries have been developed by different individuals. Please cite authors as indicated on the webpage and front page of the pdf entry. Use of associated stimuli should also be cited by acknowledging the field manual entry. Intellectual property rights are hereby asserted. Creative Commons license This material is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This means you are free to share (copy, redistribute) the material in any medium or format, and you are free to adapt (remix, transform, build upon) the material, under the following terms: you must give appropriate credit in the form of a citation to the original material; you may not use the material for commercial purposes; and if you adapt the material, you must distribute your contribution under the same license as the original.
Man, Dec 1, 1978
... Gossip, reputation, and knowledge in Zinacantan. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Havila... more ... Gossip, reputation, and knowledge in Zinacantan. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Haviland, John Beard. PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press (Chicago). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1977. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0226319555 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2006
Gesture is central to human interaction, depicted in art, taught in rhetoric, and studied as part... more Gesture is central to human interaction, depicted in art, taught in rhetoric, and studied as part of utterance. Gesture involves varying semiotic modalities and connections with speech. There are cultural particularities to its use and form, as well as ideological constructions of its appropriateness and expressive capacity.
STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 1992
Benjamins Current Topics, 2015
1. Where do nouns come from? 2. Introduction: Where does "Where do nouns come from?" co... more 1. Where do nouns come from? 2. Introduction: Where does "Where do nouns come from?" come from? (by Haviland, John B.) 3. The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages (by Tkachman, Oksana) 4. Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons (by Padden, Carol A.) 5. The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax (by Haviland, John B.) 6. How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign (by Hunsicker, Dea) 7. Subject index 8. Name index
Oceania, 1974
... Page 2. A LAST LOOK AT COOK'S GUUGU YIMIDHIRR WORD LIST 217 ... De Zwaan (1969a : 199) m... more ... Page 2. A LAST LOOK AT COOK'S GUUGU YIMIDHIRR WORD LIST 217 ... De Zwaan (1969a : 199) mentions " the three dialects of Gogo-Yimidjir " without details. In fact the language spoken now at Hope Vale is a conglomeration of tongues. ...
Gesture studies, Jun 6, 2007
Journal of Communication, Mar 1, 1977
Mexican village culture has turned hostility inward and has generated a morbid sense of prioacy c... more Mexican village culture has turned hostility inward and has generated a morbid sense of prioacy coupled with insatiable curiosity about others' private a8airs. Like most of us, villagers in the hamlets of Zinacantan, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, spend much of their time gossiping about friends and neighbors. They even gossip about gossip. "Didn't I hear that old Jose was up to some mischief?" "Perhaps, but that never became public knowledge. It was a secret "The magistrate settled the whole business in private." "Yes, when a dispute is settled at the townhall, then a newspaper report "Yes, then we all hear about it on the radio.. .. Ha ha ha." "But when the thing is hushed up, then there's nothing on the radio. There are no newspapers. Then we don't hear about it. Ha ha ha."' In the village where my family and I have set up household from time to time over the past ten years, about two thousand people cluster into a single large valley, with house compounds scattered among cornfields and fruit trees, and centered roughly around a parque with church and townhall. People live close to one another, and despite fences erected between households, they are affair." goes out to every part of town.. .. Ha ha ha." ,411 conversations reported here are loosely translated fragments of actual Zinacanteco gossip, transcribed from tape recordings or fieldnotes in Tzotzil.
Language & Communication, 2016
Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas, 2020
This chapter1 develops the theme of coordinated (inter)action as a defining setting for the quint... more This chapter1 develops the theme of coordinated (inter)action as a defining setting for the quintessential linguistic discursive form called "conversation." Turn exchanges in a first-generation sign language-dubbed "Z" (for Zinacantec Family Homesign)-depend on manipulating mutual attention, often through gaze, whose uses are multiple in this young language community. Gaze plays a central role in how signers orchestrate interpersonal attention and manage synchrony and timing in their signing. To anticipate my overall conclusions, I adapt Jakobson's (1957) classic distinction between narrated events (E n) and speech events (E s) to distinguish in Z signing between narrated spaces (within which narrated entities can be gazed at and otherwise manipulated, if sometimes only virtually) and speech-event spaces (in which, minimally, speech act participants are available to be looked at, sometimes touched, and variously indexed). Managing gaze as a multifunctional semiotic vehicle is thus complicated by the need to distinguish conceptually, and perhaps also formally, between different spaces and targets for gaze within them. Such complications may be especially pressing and perhaps qualitatively different in signed as opposed to spoken languages. I shall link apparent emerging conversational structures in the young Z sign language to processes of visual attention and mutual monitoring.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Chiapas is an electronic database documenting the thre... more The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Chiapas is an electronic database documenting the three principal Indian languages of Chiapas, Mexico. This report describes the design philosophy behind the archive, intended to distribute its results in digital form via the Internet. It illustrates some of the products of the Archive, ranging from standard linguistic description and lexicography, through semi-experimental elicitation, to ethnographically situated interaction characterized by different sorts of speech genre. It also discusses presentational and ethical issues derived from electronic distribution of digital media in linguistic documentation
Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas, 2020
In 2008, I began intensive research1 with the deaf members of a family I have known well over the... more In 2008, I began intensive research1 with the deaf members of a family I have known well over the roughly fifty years of my ongoing ethnographic work with Tzotzil (Mayan) speakers in the highland village of Zinacantán, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico (see Map 1). "Z"-my abbreviation for Zinacantec Family Homesign-has emerged in a single extended Tzotzil-speaking family. It has developed among three deaf siblings, their hearing sister and niece, and several hearing children in a second signing generation. According to their own accounts, the members of the family have never interacted with any other deaf people. Z does not, therefore, draw on any previous sign language, although it appears to make some use of visible gestures frequent in Tzotzil conversations among hearing household members and their village-mates. A complete bibliography of publications to date about Z appears below. Figure 1: Map showing the location of the Z signers in Mexico. 1 Thanks are due to the editors for suggesting and providing a template for this brief sociolinguistic sketch; and to Elena Collavin for helpful suggestions.
... Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. ix + 226 pp., photographs, glos-sary, no... more ... Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. ix + 226 pp., photographs, glos-sary, notes, bibliography, index. ERIC VENBRUX University of Nijmegen Year after year, the number of Aboriginal languages spoken in Australia decreases. ...
Space in Language and Linguistics, 2013
Proper citation and attribution Any use of the materials should be acknowledged in publications, ... more Proper citation and attribution Any use of the materials should be acknowledged in publications, presentations and other public materials. Entries have been developed by different individuals. Please cite authors as indicated on the webpage and front page of the pdf entry. Use of associated stimuli should also be cited by acknowledging the field manual entry. Intellectual property rights are hereby asserted. Creative Commons license This material is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This means you are free to share (copy, redistribute) the material in any medium or format, and you are free to adapt (remix, transform, build upon) the material, under the following terms: you must give appropriate credit in the form of a citation to the original material; you may not use the material for commercial purposes; and if you adapt the material, you must distribute your contribution under the same license as the original.
Man, Dec 1, 1978
... Gossip, reputation, and knowledge in Zinacantan. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Havila... more ... Gossip, reputation, and knowledge in Zinacantan. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Haviland, John Beard. PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press (Chicago). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1977. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0226319555 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...
Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2006
Gesture is central to human interaction, depicted in art, taught in rhetoric, and studied as part... more Gesture is central to human interaction, depicted in art, taught in rhetoric, and studied as part of utterance. Gesture involves varying semiotic modalities and connections with speech. There are cultural particularities to its use and form, as well as ideological constructions of its appropriateness and expressive capacity.
STUF - Language Typology and Universals, 1992
Benjamins Current Topics, 2015
1. Where do nouns come from? 2. Introduction: Where does "Where do nouns come from?" co... more 1. Where do nouns come from? 2. Introduction: Where does "Where do nouns come from?" come from? (by Haviland, John B.) 3. The noun-verb distinction in two young sign languages (by Tkachman, Oksana) 4. Patterned iconicity in sign language lexicons (by Padden, Carol A.) 5. The emerging grammar of nouns in a first generation sign language: Specification, iconicity, and syntax (by Haviland, John B.) 6. How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign (by Hunsicker, Dea) 7. Subject index 8. Name index
Oceania, 1974
... Page 2. A LAST LOOK AT COOK'S GUUGU YIMIDHIRR WORD LIST 217 ... De Zwaan (1969a : 199) m... more ... Page 2. A LAST LOOK AT COOK'S GUUGU YIMIDHIRR WORD LIST 217 ... De Zwaan (1969a : 199) mentions " the three dialects of Gogo-Yimidjir " without details. In fact the language spoken now at Hope Vale is a conglomeration of tongues. ...
Gesture studies, Jun 6, 2007
Journal of Communication, Mar 1, 1977
Mexican village culture has turned hostility inward and has generated a morbid sense of prioacy c... more Mexican village culture has turned hostility inward and has generated a morbid sense of prioacy coupled with insatiable curiosity about others' private a8airs. Like most of us, villagers in the hamlets of Zinacantan, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, spend much of their time gossiping about friends and neighbors. They even gossip about gossip. "Didn't I hear that old Jose was up to some mischief?" "Perhaps, but that never became public knowledge. It was a secret "The magistrate settled the whole business in private." "Yes, when a dispute is settled at the townhall, then a newspaper report "Yes, then we all hear about it on the radio.. .. Ha ha ha." "But when the thing is hushed up, then there's nothing on the radio. There are no newspapers. Then we don't hear about it. Ha ha ha."' In the village where my family and I have set up household from time to time over the past ten years, about two thousand people cluster into a single large valley, with house compounds scattered among cornfields and fruit trees, and centered roughly around a parque with church and townhall. People live close to one another, and despite fences erected between households, they are affair." goes out to every part of town.. .. Ha ha ha." ,411 conversations reported here are loosely translated fragments of actual Zinacanteco gossip, transcribed from tape recordings or fieldnotes in Tzotzil.
Language & Communication, 2016
Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas, 2020
This chapter1 develops the theme of coordinated (inter)action as a defining setting for the quint... more This chapter1 develops the theme of coordinated (inter)action as a defining setting for the quintessential linguistic discursive form called "conversation." Turn exchanges in a first-generation sign language-dubbed "Z" (for Zinacantec Family Homesign)-depend on manipulating mutual attention, often through gaze, whose uses are multiple in this young language community. Gaze plays a central role in how signers orchestrate interpersonal attention and manage synchrony and timing in their signing. To anticipate my overall conclusions, I adapt Jakobson's (1957) classic distinction between narrated events (E n) and speech events (E s) to distinguish in Z signing between narrated spaces (within which narrated entities can be gazed at and otherwise manipulated, if sometimes only virtually) and speech-event spaces (in which, minimally, speech act participants are available to be looked at, sometimes touched, and variously indexed). Managing gaze as a multifunctional semiotic vehicle is thus complicated by the need to distinguish conceptually, and perhaps also formally, between different spaces and targets for gaze within them. Such complications may be especially pressing and perhaps qualitatively different in signed as opposed to spoken languages. I shall link apparent emerging conversational structures in the young Z sign language to processes of visual attention and mutual monitoring.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Chiapas is an electronic database documenting the thre... more The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Chiapas is an electronic database documenting the three principal Indian languages of Chiapas, Mexico. This report describes the design philosophy behind the archive, intended to distribute its results in digital form via the Internet. It illustrates some of the products of the Archive, ranging from standard linguistic description and lexicography, through semi-experimental elicitation, to ethnographically situated interaction characterized by different sorts of speech genre. It also discusses presentational and ethical issues derived from electronic distribution of digital media in linguistic documentation
Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas, 2020
In 2008, I began intensive research1 with the deaf members of a family I have known well over the... more In 2008, I began intensive research1 with the deaf members of a family I have known well over the roughly fifty years of my ongoing ethnographic work with Tzotzil (Mayan) speakers in the highland village of Zinacantán, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico (see Map 1). "Z"-my abbreviation for Zinacantec Family Homesign-has emerged in a single extended Tzotzil-speaking family. It has developed among three deaf siblings, their hearing sister and niece, and several hearing children in a second signing generation. According to their own accounts, the members of the family have never interacted with any other deaf people. Z does not, therefore, draw on any previous sign language, although it appears to make some use of visible gestures frequent in Tzotzil conversations among hearing household members and their village-mates. A complete bibliography of publications to date about Z appears below. Figure 1: Map showing the location of the Z signers in Mexico. 1 Thanks are due to the editors for suggesting and providing a template for this brief sociolinguistic sketch; and to Elena Collavin for helpful suggestions.
... Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. ix + 226 pp., photographs, glos-sary, no... more ... Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. ix + 226 pp., photographs, glos-sary, notes, bibliography, index. ERIC VENBRUX University of Nijmegen Year after year, the number of Aboriginal languages spoken in Australia decreases. ...
Space in Language and Linguistics, 2013