New Digital Book by Dr. María Ignacia Massone
CONVERSATION IN ARGENTINIAN SIGN LANGUAGE (LA CONVERSACIÓN EN LENGUA DE SEÑAS ARGENTINA) - María Ignacia Massone
Collection: Estudios de la Minoría Sorda (Studies on Hearing Impaired Minority)
A Proposal for an Analysis of a New and Fresh Sign Language.
This book analyses conversation in Argentinean Sign Language (LSA) among deaf people. Material has been divided in sections. Each of them corresponding to a different type of signing action, e.g., greeting, questioning, inviting, offering, refusing, thanking, asking for something, assenting, etc. Also included are two other kinds of sign intermingling: joking and telling (narrating). This book was designed for hearing impaired people who teach sign language and other students of sign language with normal hearing (teachers, parents, interpreters).
María Ignacia Massone presents a rigorous and novel analysis of the Argentinean Sign Language (observed most commonly in face to face interactions and through participant observation within the hearing impaired minority). Language is studied in different conversation settings, certain grammatical, discourse and cultural structures that are explained in each section.
Each conversation analysis includes a description of necessary grammatical aspects so as to understand the specific workings in the language, discourse aspects that allow for the decoding of that being proposed and the communication characteristics that belong to the hearing impaired community and constitute it as a separate group. On the other hand, this analysis also allows this group to understand its language. This is an excellent book for all those who have a basic experience in language (it may not be LSA), want to increase and refresh basic knowledge of Sign Language.
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MARÍA IGNACIA MASSONE
Biography:
She is an independent researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research) at the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Buenos Aires.
In 1995, she completed her studies for a PhD. in Linguistics from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She studied Linguistics of Sign Language under Dr. Robert Johnson from Gallaudet University, where she also conducted Seminars. She has been Past Director for the Linguistics Department at the Argentinean Confederation of Hearing Impaired, and Advisor to the World Deaf Federation.
She has been an advisor to schools throughout the country and helped organize courses for trainers in linguistics and bilingual sign language. She has taught at several universities and taught seminars round the country and abroad. Several of her projects, as the Primer Diccionario Bilingüe Lengua de Señas Argentina/Español (First Bilingual Dictionary for Argentinean/Spanish Sign Language), and a course for the implementation of bilingualism in the Jujuy province, Argentina, the project for Training of Hearing Impaired and Hearing Able Teachers in the Bilingual-Bicultural Model at the Faculty of Philosophy and Lettres, University of Buenos Aires, 1996-1999 have been of interest to many.
She has received many national and international grants. At the moment, she is an advisor to the course on Sign Language at Americana, an NGO. She supervises the Estudios Semióticos, Filosóficos y Sociológicos (Semiotic, Philosophic and Sociologic Studies) collection at Editorial Digital Libros publisher in the web, the theses for Master and Doctorate degrees and a research team. She also integrates a language/meaning experimental theatrical troupe and teaches Meaning in Film and Literature at the San Martin Cultural Centre. She has authored more than one hundred publications, and papers for national and international congresses.
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