Signing and Belonging in Nepal by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway

Author:Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press

Jeevan:

1. to know

Jeevan:

1. to-know

Jeevan:

2. to understand (nonstandard form)

Jeevan:

2. to-understand (nonstandard form)

Birendra:

3. to understand (standard form)

Birendra:

3. TO-UNDERSTAND (standard form)

Jeevan:

4. TO UNDERSTAND (standard form)

Jeevan:

4. TO-UNDERSTAND (standard form)

The procedure shifted when the homesigners were called to the board, as illustrated by the turn taken by Usha, a homesigner first exposed to language in her early twenties. Rather than expecting Usha to produce the forms independently, Birendra required only that she produce each sign correctly by directly copying as he modeled each one (see transcript 4). Of course, the other students had themselves been copying the model Birendra had provided at the beginning of the class, while Birendra himself was copying the forms from the NSL dictionary. However, most of the participants were expected to internalize and independently reproduce the forms in a way that the homesigners, such as Usha, were not. The other homesigner in attendance that day likewise copied as Birendra proceeded through the recitation. This was not because the homesigners were new to the class. Rather, this arrangement had been reached only when it became clear that they were unlikely to learn to produce the signs independently.

Transcript 4

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