35.908, Books: Personal experience narratives in three West African sign languages: Morgado (2024)

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Date: 28-Feb-2024
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Personal experience narratives in three West African sign languages: Morgado (2024)


Title: Personal experience narratives in three West African sign
languages
Subtitle: The influence of time-depth, community size and social
interaction
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0661

Author: Marta Morgado
Abstract:

This book is about three West African sign languages with different
time-depths, community sizes and patterns of social interactions.
Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL), Ghana, is an old village sign
language used by 33 deaf people. Langue des Signes de Bouakako
(LaSiBo), Côte d'Ivoire, is a new village sign language, used by six
deaf people. Língua Gestual Guineense, Guinea-Bissau, is an emerging
school-based sign language used by around 500 deaf people.

In the three sign languages, 45 narratives of personal experiences
were analysed to better understand how the time depth, the community
size and the socialisation frequency influenced the three sign
languages. Four different descriptive analyses of the narratives were
carried out. Study 1 analysed the structure of the narratives,
following Labov & Waletzky's model (1967) and Freytag's dramatic
pyramid (1894). Studies 2, 3 and 4 focus on specific narrative devices
that work to make narratives more convincing, as part of Labov's
(1972) "evaluation" component. These devices refer to the moments when
storytellers give dramatic prominence to narratives through the
incorporation of characters, such as the use of different signing
perspectives (Study 2), the use of role shifting between characters
and constructed dialogues (Study 3) and the use of different types of
descriptions of the animal (Study 4).

These studies show that AdaSL and male LGG signers use devices that
reflect a greater ability to capture the audience's attention, while
LaSiBo and female LGG signers tend to show similar patterns in using
simpler or reduced devices.

This study shows that the frequency of social interaction between deaf
peers is the most crucial factor in language change over time.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Language Family(ies): African Deaf Sign Languages
                      Sign Language

Written In: English (eng)



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