A Comparative Study of Unity and Diversity of Malagasy Culture-Language on an interaction analysis approach to Conversation and Sign Language

我们从2007年到2009年的田野调查中收集的马达加斯加语会话数据和马达加斯加语手语数据，这些数据告诉我们，如果我们计算语音选择的频率，可能会澄清马达加斯加文化语言的统一性和多样性。马达加斯加语会话行为和马来语手语行为中特定语境中主格代词的词序选择频率和单复数形式选择频率。然而，究竟是什么原因导致了马达加斯加语的言语行为与手语行为在语言交流、言语链和语音等方面的差异，仍然是一个有待解决的问题。

The malagasy conversation data and the malagasy sign language data which have been collected on our field-work researches from 2007 to 2009, these data reveal us that it may be possible to clarify unity and diversity of malagasy culture-language, if we count the frequency of choice of voice, the frequency of choice of word order and the frequency of choice of singular form/plural form which concerns the nominative pronoun in certain contexts of malagasy conversation acts and malgasy sign language acts. However, there still remain the open questions what cause the dissimilarities between malagasy speech acts and malagasy sign language acts on the points of phatic communion, speech chain and voice.