35.334, Books: Taboo in Sign Languages: Napoli, Fisher, Mirus (2023)

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Date: 22-Dec-2023
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Taboo in Sign Languages: Napoli, Fisher, Mirus (2023)


Title: Taboo in Sign Languages
Series Title: Elements in Sign Languages
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009291958

Author: Donna Jo Napoli
Author: Jami Fisher
Author: Gene Mirus
Abstract:

Taboo topics in deaf communities include the usual ones found in
spoken languages, as well as ones particular to deaf experiences, both
in how deaf people relate to hearing people and how deaf people
interact with other deaf people. Attention to these topics can help
linguists understand better the consequences of field method choices
and lead them to adopt better ones. Taboo expressions in American Sign
Language are innovative regarding the linguistic structures they play
with. This creativity is evident across the grammar in non-taboo
expressions, but seems to revel in profane ones. When it comes to the
syntax, however, certain types of structures occur in taboo
expressions that are all but absent elsewhere, showing grammatical
possibilities that might have gone unnoticed without attention to
taboo. Taboo expressions are innovative, as well, in how they respond
to changing culture, where lexical items that are incoherent with
community sensibilities are 'corrected'.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)



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