Signed Names in Japanese Sign Language : Linguistic and Cultural Analyses
Nonaka, Angela ; Mesh, Kate LU
and Sagara, Keiko
(2015)
In Sign Language Studies
16(1).
p.57-85
- Abstract
- This article describes the types of signed names given and used by deaf users of Japanese Sign Language. Drawing from a dataset of 216 signed names, we identify and describe nine strategies for signed name formation. Notably, seven of these represent written Japanese surnames. We explain how language contact with written Japanese characters (kanji) and syllabograms (kana) gives rise to a distinctive set of naming strategies. We further discuss the culture of literacy in
Japan that emphasizes the written forms of surnames and consider its influential role in Japanese deaf education when sustained contact between many deaf people made naming a central concern.
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- author
- Nonaka, Angela
; Mesh, Kate
LU
and Sagara, Keiko
- publishing date
- 2015
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- sign language, Japan, naming, onomastics, orthography, deaf education, deaf studies, language contact
- in
- Sign Language Studies
- volume
- 16
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 57 - 85
- publisher
- Gallaudet University Press
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:84943781933
- ISSN
- 0302-1475
- DOI
- 10.1353/sls.2015.0025
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
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- e3586159-0e0e-4866-a2ef-1722f7318ac8
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