Pointing to the body Kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages
Pointing to the body Kin signs in Australian Indigenous sign languages
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澳大利亚土著手语中指向身体的 Kin 手势
作者：
Green J
在澳大利亚原住民中，亲属关系在组织互动和其他社会行为方面发挥着核心作用。亲属关系的口语词汇一直是人类学家和语言学家广泛研究的目标。然而，较少深入探讨的是通过手语表达的亲属类别（尽管亚当·肯顿（Adam Kendon）的开创性工作）。本文考察了来自澳大利亚大陆不同地区的四个讲语言的群体的亲属符号所编纂的关系范畴：来自澳大利亚中部的Anmatyerr;来自东北阿纳姆地的Yolanju;来自约克角的Kuuk Thaayorre和来自西部沙漠的Ngaatjatjarra/ Ngaanyatjarra。这次审查的目的是双重的。首先，我们将亲属符号所表达的表位亲属关系与其口语对应物进行了比较。在所有情况下，在口语系统中所作的范畴区分都系统地融合在符号系统中。其次，我们考虑了用符号表达的亲属范畴与这些符号所表达的身体各部位之间的转喻关系。
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 Yolŋu 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.