[Linganth] CaMP virtual reading group in two weeks

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

The CaMP virtual reading group will be chatting with Mara Green, focusing
on her new book, Making Sense: Language, Ethics and and Understanding in
Deaf Nepal on Friday, October 25th at 12-1 pm, east coast time.


She has asked us to read the introduction.  Please read as much as you can,
but do feel free to join us even if you haven't managed to read everything.



The introduction can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QxQdHVkq8UT4y2dSph24FezAZoPoVJW6/view?usp=sharing


The open access version can be found here:

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/making-sense/paper


The meeting will be *12-1 pm*  EST on Friday, October 25th, and can be
reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

Ilana


Press blurb: *Making Sense* explores the experiential, ethical, and
intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking with, worlds wherein
language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use
Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The
majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call *natural sign*.
Natural sign involves conventional and improvisatory signs, many of which
recruit semiotic relations immanent in the social and material world. These
features make conversation in natural sign both possible and precarious.
Sense-making in natural sign depends on signers' skillful use of resources
and on addressees' willingness to engage. Natural sign reveals the labor of
sense-making that in more conventional language is carried by shared
grammar. Ultimately, this highly original book shows that emergent language
is an ethical endeavor, challenging readers to consider what it means, and
what it takes, to understand and to be understood.
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