Conference: North American Indian Sign Language Conference

会议：北美印第安手语会议

• 批准号: 2335024
• 负责人: Melanie McKay-Cody
• 金额: $ 3.36万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2335024&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; North; American; Indian; Sign

While a revival of spoken Indigenous languages is underway, this revival is incomplete without parallel investment in North American Indian Sign Language (NAISL). NAISL, also known as Indian Sign Language or Hand Talk, comprises interrelated varieties of sign language spoken by Deaf and hearing Indigenous Peoples of North America. This award supports a community-led conference on NAISL that serves as a venue for presentations, dialogues, practical workshops, and NAISL documentation. This structure enhances the value of the conference in that it disseminates existing research, resources, and methodologies while also collecting valuable new NAISL data that are at risk of being lost. Hosting a conference on NAISL helps to focus attention on its importance and fosters a community of support, working relationships, and increased investments of time and effort in the documentation, preservation, and study of NAISL. This helps to stimulate new projects and research as well as efforts to revitalize NAISL in communities. Signers in attendance are invited to contribute signs to an ongoing NAISL video dictionary project directed by the conference organizers. This takes place in the context of practical workshops where signers are recorded by the dictionary project leaders, providing attendees with training on how to conduct sign language documentation in their own communities. This award is made as part of a funding partnership between the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for the NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure – NEH Documenting Endangered Languages Program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

虽然口头土著语言的复兴正在进行中，但如果没有对北美印第安手语（NAISL）的平行投资，这种复兴是不完整的。NAISL，也被称为印第安手语或手语，包括北美聋人和听力土著人民所说的各种相互关联的手语。该奖项支持社区主导的NAISL会议，作为演示，对话，实践研讨会和NAISL文件的场所。这种结构提高了会议的价值，因为它传播了现有的研究，资源和方法，同时也收集了有价值的新NAISL数据，这些数据有丢失的风险。举办NAISL会议有助于关注其重要性，并促进社区的支持，工作关系，并增加对NAISL的文件，保存和研究的时间和精力的投资。这有助于刺激新的项目和研究，以及努力振兴NAISL在社区。与会的签名者被邀请为会议组织者指导的正在进行的NAISL视频词典项目提供签名。这是在实际讲习班的背景下进行的，在讲习班上，字典项目领导人记录了签名者，为与会者提供了如何在自己的社区进行手语记录的培训。 该奖项是国家科学基金会和国家人文基金会为NSF动态语言基础设施- NEH记录濒危语言计划建立的资助伙伴关系的一部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。