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Identifying Overlapping Language Communities: The Case of Chiriquí and Panamanian Signed Languages
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Parks, Elizabeth S. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2016
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Ethnography, Participant Observation