Do you see what I mean? : Plains Indian sign talk and the embodiment of action
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Do you see what I mean? : Plains Indian sign talk and the embodiment of action
University of Nebraska Press, 2009
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Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-374) and index
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内容説明
Plains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains, who spoke very different languages. Although some researchers thought it had disappeared following the establishment of reservations and the widespread adoption of English, Brenda Farnell discovered that PST is still an integral component of the storytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture.
Farnell's research challenges the dominant European American view of language as a matter of words only. In Nakota language practices, she asserts, words and gestures are equal partners in the creation of meaning. Drawing on Nakota narratives videotaped during field research at the Fort Belknap reservation in northern Montana, she uses the movement script Labanotation to create texts of the movement content of these performances.
The first and only ethnographic study of contemporary uses of PST, Do You See What I Mean? draws on important developments in the study of language and culture to provide an action-centered analysis of spoken and gestural discourse. It offers a theoretical approach to language and the body that transcends the current "intellectualist" versus "phenomenological" impasse in social and linguistic theory.
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PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Nineteenth-Century Legacy2. Bias against the Iconic3. Geographical and Historical Spaces: Assiniboine Territory and the Embodiment of Deixis4. Moral and Ethical Spaces: Naming Practices and Visual Imagery in Nakota and PST5. Getting to the Point: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in PST and Nakota6. Storytelling and the Embodiment of Symbolic Form7. The Primacy of Movement in Assiniboine Culture8. ConclusionsAppendix A. Phonetic KeyAppendix B. Kinetic KeyNotesBibliographyIndex
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