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Green, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0001-9509-1547, Bauer, Anastasia ORCID: 0000-0002-4630-4590, Gaby, Alice ORCID: 0000-0003-4637-5513 and Ellis, Elizabeth Marrkilyi (2018). Pointing to the body Kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages. Gesture, 17 (1). S. 1 - 37. AMSTERDAM: JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO. ISSN 1569-9773

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Abstract

Kinship plays a central role in organizing interaction and other social behaviors in Indigenous Australia. The spoken lexicon of kinship has been the target of extensive consideration by anthropologists and linguists alike. Less well explored, however, are the kin categories expressed through sign languages (notwithstanding the pioneering work of Adam Kendon). This paper examines the relational categories codified by the kin signs of four language-speaking groups from different parts of the Australian continent: the Anmatyerr from Central Australia; the Yolnu from North East Arnhem Land; the Kuuk Thaayorre from Cape York and the Ngaatjatjarra/Ngaanyatjarra from the Western Desert. The purpose of this examination is twofold. Firstly, we compare the etic kin relationships expressed by kin signs with their spoken equivalents. In all cases, categorical distinctions made in the spoken system are systematically merged in the sign system. Secondly, we consider the metonymic relationships between the kin categories expressed in sign and the various parts of the body at which those signs are articulated.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Green, Jennifer UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9509-1547 UNSPECIFIED Bauer, Anastasia UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-4630-4590 UNSPECIFIED Gaby, Alice UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4637-5513 UNSPECIFIED Ellis, Elizabeth Marrkilyi UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-201317
DOI:	10.1075/gest.00009.gre
Journal or Publication Title:	Gesture
Volume:	17
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 1 - 37
Date:	2018
Publisher:	JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO
Place of Publication:	AMSTERDAM
ISSN:	1569-9773
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIAL-ORGANIZATION; KINSHIP; TRIBES; TYPOLOGY; MODALITY; CULTURE Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20131