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Language in Society, Oct 1, 1998

Language in Society, Dec 1, 1998

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Apr 4, 2016

Anthropology News, Nov 1, 2000

Gallaudet University Press eBooks, Sep 30, 2014

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology, 2015

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2016

When I asked him if he kept in touch with his schoolmates after leaving school, he was very clear... more When I asked him if he kept in touch with his schoolmates after leaving school, he was very clear that none of them had kept in touch with each other after leaving school. Apparently, even when they were still attending the school, none of them did much with each other after school hours; they all seemed to just go home. And there were no references of any deaf adults. He said that he didn’t meet up with any of his old schoolmates until he bumped into them at the ANSNIC center many [10 or 15] years later. It seems that the best chance so far of finding a pre-existing Deaf community has petered out again.

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2002

▪ Because of their deafness, deaf people have been marked as different and treated problematica... more ▪ Because of their deafness, deaf people have been marked as different and treated problematically by their hearing societies. Until 25 years ago, academic literature addressing deafness typically described deafness as pathology, focusing on cures or mitigation of the perceived handicap. In ethnographic accounts, interactions involving deaf people are sometimes presented as examples of how communities treat atypical members. Recently, studies of deafness have adopted more complex sociocultural perspectives, raising issues of community identity, formation and maintenance, and language ideology. Anthropological researchers have approached the study of d/Deaf communities from at least three useful angles. The first, focusing on the history of these communities, demonstrates that the current issues have roots in the past, including the central role of education in the creation and maintenance of communities. A second approach centers on emic perspectives, drawing on the voices of comm...

The emergence of a new sign language in Nicaragua over the past 25 years highlights selection and... more The emergence of a new sign language in Nicaragua over the past 25 years highlights selection and information as key components in language change. Theoretical perspectives informed by cybernetic systems theories, such as those put forth by anthropologist Gregory Bateson and developmental psychologist Jean Piaget identify principles common to both evolutionary and ontogenetic processes, though the expression of these principles differ in these analytically distinct processes. Unlike other approaches, cybernetic theories account for the range of interacting phenomena in several domains; environmental, biological, social and cultural (including linguistic). The history of this new sign language, including specific grammatical changes, and ethnographic observations show that cybernetic perspectives clarify factors involved. For example, borrowed linguistic forms, emerging grammatical constraints and even referential confusion during discourse are all more understandable in light of systems-level perspectives.

Language in Society, 1998

… and Knowledge revisited: From neurogenesis to …, 2005

... Richard J. Senghas Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California Ann Senghas Barnard Coll... more ... Richard J. Senghas Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California Ann Senghas Barnard College of Columbia University Jennie E. Pyers ... & Zawolkow, 1980] have been invented to aid the acquisition of spoken/written languages.) See Senghas and Monaghan (2002) for a ...