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James, Bentley, Adone, Marie Carla D. and Maypilama, Elaine L. (2020). Decolonizing Research Methodologies: Insights from Research on Indigenous Sign Languages of Australia. Sign Lang. Stud., 20 (2). S. 201 - 231. WASHINGTON: GALLAUDET UNIV PRESS. ISSN 1533-6263

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Abstract

This article incorporates themes from ethnolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, sign linguistics, and decolonization of research methods. We examine a Yolgu-led collaboration to save their endangered Yolgu Sign Language (YSL) in Australia's remote North East Arnhem Land.YSL is an alternate bimodal language for hearing Yolgu and the primary language of Deaf Yolgu. In light of dissimilar world-views between indigenous Yolgu people and the Australian state, we describe opportunities for ethical research and equitable collaboration, with a practical guide to strategies of local action research. We deploy ethnographic insight to describe a globally rare and distinctive metaphysics of place and language. We find that long-term, embedded, place-based collaborative research, through local language, bestows a deeper understanding of Yolgu spiritual connection to kin and country. Further, we found the affirmation of Yolgu life space-as embodied in life on the homelands-provokes a different, empowered, non-subordinate cultural future. This embodied cultural future supports the critical intergenerational transmission of the Yolgu ancestral inheritance, of kin and country, and its languages, signed and spoken, while resisting internal colonization.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code James, Bentley UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Adone, Marie Carla D. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Maypilama, Elaine L. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-310550
DOI:	10.1353/sls.2020.0000
Journal or Publication Title:	Sign Lang. Stud.
Volume:	20
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 201 - 231
Date:	2020
Publisher:	GALLAUDET UNIV PRESS
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	1533-6263
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 5: Moderne Sprachen und Kulturen > Englisches Seminar I
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TIME Multiple languages Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31055