Abstract
In this paper, I use a holographic metaphor to explain the identification of overlapping sign language communities in Panama. By visualizing Panama’s complex signing communities as emitting community “hotspots” through social drama on multiple stages, I employ ethnographic methods to explore overlapping contours of Panama’s sign language communities in both time and space, similar to what a hologram accomplishes. Based on rapid appraisal of Panama’s signed languages through 2 weeks of participant observation, interviews, and lexical comparisons, and contextualization of this data in a broad 5-year project that included fieldwork in 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, I propose recognition of overlapping Chiriquí and Panamanian Signing Communities using distinct signed languages: Lengua de Señas Panameñas and Lengua de Señas de Chiriquí.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- From Slow Repetition to Awkward Omission: Economic, Efficient, and Precise Language Use in Bilingual Formal Meetings
- Alsatian versus Standard German: Regional Language Bilingual Primary Education in Alsace
- Identifying overlapping language communities: The case of Chiriquí and Panamanian signed languages
- Book Reviews
- Mamarame Seck: Narratives as Muslim Practice in Senegal
- Antoon De Rycker and Zuraidah Mohd Don: Discourse and crisis: Critical perspectives
- M. Taboada, S. Doval Suárez, and E. González Álvarez: Contrastive discourse analysis: Functional and corpus perspectives
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- From Slow Repetition to Awkward Omission: Economic, Efficient, and Precise Language Use in Bilingual Formal Meetings
- Alsatian versus Standard German: Regional Language Bilingual Primary Education in Alsace
- Identifying overlapping language communities: The case of Chiriquí and Panamanian signed languages
- Book Reviews
- Mamarame Seck: Narratives as Muslim Practice in Senegal
- Antoon De Rycker and Zuraidah Mohd Don: Discourse and crisis: Critical perspectives
- M. Taboada, S. Doval Suárez, and E. González Álvarez: Contrastive discourse analysis: Functional and corpus perspectives