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In:Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province
Adam Kendon †
[Not in series 226] 2020
► pp. 199–201

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Published online: 17 February 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.226.ti

A

  • alternate sign languages, definedxi, 29, 39
  • American Sign Language2, 7, 14, 16, 18–20, 30, 39, 44, 66, 73, 75, 86, 93, 95–96, 109–110, 115–116, 118–119, 141, 160, 181, 185–186, 195–196
  • articulation locations11, 31
  • articulation space14, 16
  • Attitudes towards deaf people147, 149, 159
  • Australasian Signed English154, 159–160
  • Australiaix, xi, 60, 69, 98, 105, 110, 116–117, 154, 160
  • Australian Aboriginal Sign Languagesxi, 29, 39see also Pitta-Pitta, Warlpiri
  • Australian National Universityix, xii, 118, 141, 182
  • Australian Sign Language (AUSLAN)30, 144, 152, 154, 159–160, 180

B

  • base, of signvi, 30, 39–44, 46–48, 53, 106, 110, 164–168, 170
  • Bellona Island153
  • bracketing sub units of discourse81
  • British Sign Language141

C

  • Callan Services, Papua New Guinea 154–156, 158, 159
  • characterizing signsvi, 18, 41, 47, 52
  • Chimbu Province144, 148, 173, 182
  • Christian Brothers154
  • code-switching148, 163
  • Cognitive grammar190, 192, 195
  • Common signs146, 154, 176–177
  • Communication, regulatory functions inx
  • communicative ecology 146–147, 182
  • comparing sign languages39, 110–114, 178, 189
  • compound signs30, 54, 59
  • concurrent actionvi, 18, 32, 75, 77–89, 96, 104
  • Culture signvii, 159–164, 166–168

D

  • Darja Hoenigman151
  • Deaf community sign language 153–154, 176–178
  • Deaf culture161, 177
  • Deaf education152, 154–156
  • deafness 147–148, 159, 177, 179, 187
  • distance6, 22, 25, 45, 68–69, 73, 122, 132–133, 137, 151
  • duration 12–16, 109

E

  • enactmentvi, 8, 14, 25, 27, 30–34, 40–41, 43, 45–53, 55–63, 65, 80, 86, 95, 111, 137
  • Enga Sign Languagexii, 7, 37, 100, 110, 112, 143
  • Engaiii, v, vii, ix, xi–xiii, xv, 1–3, 5–7, 14, 16–18, 20–32, 37–38, 41–42, 44–46, 52, 54, 60, 65, 73–75, 81–82, 92–93, 95, 97, 100, 107, 109–113, 118, 121, 126, 134, 141, 143–144, 166–167, 173, 175–176, 178, 181, 185–191, 193–195
  • Englishxvii, 7, 9, 14, 17, 54, 59–60, 107, 118, 148, 154, 156–160, 187
  • ethnographic background2
  • ethnographicv, 2–3, 160, 181, 188
  • eye focus 81–87

F

  • facial expressionx, xii, 14, 34–35, 81–82, 85, 87–88, 111, 115–116, 126, 138, 188
  • facial expression, facial displays .x, xii, 8, 14–15, 28, 30–31, 34–35, 42, 81–82, 85–88, 92100, 104–107, 111–112, 115–116, 126, 131, 138, 149, 188
  • Family sign language 148–149, 176
  • Fiji 154–155
  • Fijian Sign Language152, 160
  • forelimbs11, 18, 21

G

  • gazex, xii, 28, 31, 65, 67–68, 71, 82–86, 92, 101, 106, 115, 131, 188
  • gesture, definition ofx, 15, 17–18
    • and culture sign 174–175
    • hearing assimilated to sign178
    • double palm presentation146
    • in contrast to ‘sign’47
    • insulting159, 164
    • interpersonal 50–51, 80, 86
    • Kendon’s concept of 185–187, 189–196
    • mouth gesture 103–107
  • grammar 5–6, 93–94, 116, 118, 149–150, 154, 156, 158–159, 179–180, 186–187, 189–190, 194–195

H

  • hand shapes, as used in Enga signing 23–24
  • head and face14, 21, 29, 31, 34, 104
  • head dip80
  • head22, 28–29, 32, 42
    • as part of concurrent action 129–133, 173
    • in affixual acton 85–87
    • in pointing 78–81
    • signs in relation to65
  • headshake33, 70, 73, 76–78, 101–103, 117, 129
  • Highlands region, Papua New Guinea 143–148
  • Homesign -145 37–39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 109–110, 116, 119, 153, 161–162, 166, 174, 186

I

  • Imanoli ix–x, xii, 1, 5–9, 12–16, 23, 27, 33–35, 38, 41–42, 49–51, 67–72, 76–79, 82–88, 92, 95–107, 122–127, 129–131, 133–137, 146, 151, 152, 164, 177
  • Human Studies Film Archivexv, 121
  • iconicityvi, 2, 20
  • interaction ix–x, 1, 27, 75–76, 81, 88, 115–117, 145, 147, 150, 152–153, 158, 163, 174, 178, 181, 185, 187
  • Interpreting, Papua New Guinea156, 158–159, 162, 163
  • Islands region, Papua New Guinea 151–152

K

  • Kagobai153, 169–170
  • Kasapuix, xii, 2–3, 6–7, 34–35, 67–72, 76–77, 79–80, 82, 84, 87–88, 98, 143
  • kineme19
  • kinesicsvii, x–xi, 19, 38, 75, 103, 107, 117, 115, 193
  • Kiribati 154–155
  • Kokesa68, 71, 84
  • Ku Waru 144–148, 164, 166–168, 174, 176, 182

L

  • Lagaip River3, 76, 79
  • Lang, Adrienne5
  • Lang, Ranierix, xii–xiii, 5–6, 67–68, 71, 98, 100, 107
  • language ideology147
  • Language ideology147
  • language versus gesture 191–192
  • languagingxii, 182, 188, 192
  • Lanyelaix, 1, 6–7, 13–16, 34–35, 42, 65, 67–70, 72, 76–77, 79, 97–105, 107, 122–137, 170–171
  • Lexical comparison166, 175–176
  • linguistic perspective186
  • Local sign languages146, 178
  • local sign network 144–145
  • Local sign networks 144–146
  • locus of articulation 19–22, 24–28, 37, 109
  • looking8, 35, 68, 70, 83–84, 86, 88, 101, 103–104, 106, 135, 188, 191
  • Lyangatapa7, 9, 34–35, 67–70, 77–79, 82–84, 87–88, 95, 98

M

  • manual action xii 32–34
  • manual counting systems147, 174
  • measuringvi, 15, 40, 44–45, 52, 56–59
  • Mehek sign language150
  • Mehek 149–150, 162, 167, 175–176, 180
  • Melanesia112, 143, 153
  • Melanesian Sign Language (MSL) 154–157, 159–169
  • Melanesian Sign Language145, 154–155
  • mental schemata113
  • metacommunicative functionsvi, 85
  • Mexico142, 166, 178, 185
  • Milan Conference187
  • Momase region, Papua New Guinea 149–151
  • Momasevii, 149
  • Mount Hagen3
  • mouth15, 22, 32–33, 35, 42, 48–49, 60–61, 84, 86, 88, 96, 123–126, 129–131, 134, 136, 147, 155, 182, 192
  • movement, in signing8, 11–12, 18–20, 24–28, 31, 33, 37, 41, 43–45, 47–49, 51–53, 55–56, 60–62, 67, 71, 95–97, 99, 109, 111, 113, 116–117, 131–132, 134, 147, 165–166, 185, 189, 194
  • moving pointsvi, 71, 88, 188
  • multidirectional verbs95

N

  • Ngangane Waipilix, xii, 1, 5–9, 13, 16–18, 33, 34–35, 38, 49–50, 53, 67–68, 70–71, 73, 76–79, 82–85, 88, 95–102, 104–105, 121–122, 125–134, 136–138, 168
  • Nepal142, 164, 178, 180
  • network sign language145
  • New Zealand Sign Language152

O

  • order of signs91, 93

P

  • palm presentation 101–104, 107
  • Papua New Guinea Sign Language (PNGSL) 153–160, 176–177, 178
  • Papua region, Papua New Guinea 148–149
  • passage of time17, 37, 98–99
  • Paul Wolfram151
  • phonology19, 116, 166–168, 179
  • phrasal juncturevii, 91
  • Pitta Pitta sign language 54–55, 57, 60–61, 63, 110
  • Plains Indian Sign Language20, 28, 39, 91, 93
  • pointingvi, 2, 18, 23, 30, 35, 40–43, 47, 50–51, 61–63, 65–74, 76, 99, 109–111, 122, 127, 131–132, 134, 137, 149–151, 162, 188
  • pronominal referencevi, 47, 66, 68, 157, 188
  • quantum world191

Q

  • Queensland29, 54, 57, 110, 118
  • question, interrogativevii, x, 1–2, 11, 15, 33, 35, 37, 40–42, 45–46, 60–62, 72, 76, 81, 85, 91, 100–107, 109, 111–112, 137–138, 144, 148, 174, 189, 194

R

  • rate of signing 15–16
  • realization devicesvi, 2, 53–55, 57, 59–60, 63, 110–111
  • reference field113, 189
  • referentvi, 2, 27, 37–42, 40, 46–47, 52–53, 63, 71, 93, 95, 109–111, 113, 164–165, 167, 174
  • Rennell Island153, 169, 175
  • Rossel Island148

S

  • sawmill sign language in British Columbia 29–30, 39, 54, 57, 60–63, 110, 118, 163
  • shrug33, 107, 124, 185, 192, 194
  • Sign Language, general processes in 62- 18–2063, 112–114
  • sign, definition of12, 18
  • sign morphology94
  • Sign networks 144–146, 173–174
  • Signed English154, 156–157, 159
  • signed languages119, 141, 180, 185–191, 195–196
  • signed utterance11, 75, 93, 112, 193
  • simultaneous signingvi, 75–77
  • Sinasina144, 148, 173, 176, 182
  • Solomon Islands Sign Language (SISL) 152–153, 176–177
  • Solomon Islands 152–153
  • Solomon Islandsvii, xiii, 141–143, 145, 147, 149, 151–155, 157, 159, 161, 163, 165, 167, 169, 171, 173, 175–177, 179, 181, 183
  • Southern New Ireland151
  • space and person reference73
  • space11, 14, 16, 19, 21–22, 24–25, 28–31, 43–45, 51–52, 66, 68, 70–74, 94–95, 97, 112–113, 116, 127, 166, 181, 183, 188, 189, 195
  • speech x–xi, 60, 75, 77, 86, 92, 105, 107, 112, 113, 146, 150, 157, 161, 187
  • spoken languagexi, 11, 19–20, 30, 59–60, 75–76, 106–107, 112–113, 141, 147–148, 150, 152, 154, 157, 160, 168, 187, 189–191
  • Stephen Levinson148
  • Swedish Sign Language141, 149

T

  • temporal referencevii, 2, 57, 91, 94, 97, 99, 115, 134
  • time of day 98–99
  • Tok Pisinix, 9, 147–150, 156–161
  • touch21, 68, 96, 122, 124, 136
  • Translanguaging164

U

  • universal sign language113
  • utterance dedicated1, 186, 190
  • utterancev, ix, xii, xvii, 1, 8–9, 11–13, 15, 17–18, 35, 67–68, 70–71, 75, 77–88, 92–93, 96, 98–100, 105–107, 112, 115, 117, 181, 185–186, 189–190, 193, 195

V

  • Vanuatu175
  • verbal signs95
  • verbal95, 121, 187, 196
  • verbsvii, 94–95, 116, 157, 187
  • village sign language148, 177–178, 182–183
  • visible bodily action x–xi, 1, 117, 186, 188, 191, 193–194, 195
  • visual expression38

W

  • Wanib sign langauge150, 162, 167, 175
  • Warlpiri sign language32, 60
  • wink194
  • Word order150, 156
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