36.1585, FYI: STAL Seminar: MAY 26, 14:30 CET: Donna Jo Napoli, "Creativity in Taboo Terms in Sign Languages"

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Subject: 36.1585, FYI: STAL Seminar: MAY 26, 14:30 CET: Donna Jo Napoli, "Creativity in Taboo Terms in Sign Languages"

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Date: 16-May-2025
From: Dan Zeman [danczeman at gmail.com]
Subject: STAL Seminar: MAY 26, 14:30 CET: Donna Jo Napoli, "Creativity in Taboo Terms in Sign Languages"


The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home) invites you to a talk
by Donna Jo Napoli (Swarthmore College) entitled "Creativity in Taboo
Terms in Sign Languages". The talk will take place online on MAY 26,
14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET) and is part of the of STAL
network seminar series
(https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to
participate, please write to stalnetwork at gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Below you can find the abstract.
All welcome!
ABSTRACT:
Deaf signing communities share many of the same language taboos that
hearing speakers observe. Still, there are areas that are sticky in
sign that are not in speech and vice versa. We will take a peek at how
signers create taboo signs, looking at ASL and DGS (the sign language
of Germany) and perhaps a couple of other languages, noting primarily
morphological creativity but also syntactic creativity.

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Philosophy of Language
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): American Sign Language (ase)
                     German Sign Language (gsg)

Language Family(ies): Sign Language



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