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- catalog abstract "Publisher description: Plains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains who spoke differing languages. Some researchers thought it had disappeared following the establishment of reservations and the adoption of English, but in this study Brenda Farnell documents that PST is still an integral component of the storytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture. Farnell's research challenges the Euro-American view of language as a matter of words only. In Nakota language practices, she asserts, words and gestures are equal partners in the creation of meaning. Drawing on Nakota narratives videotaped during field research at the Fort Belknap Reservation, northern Montana, she uses the movement script Labanotation to create texts of the movement content of these performances. Using them to analyze both spoken and gestural components, she builds an action-centered theory of "deixis" and spatial orientation that reveals unexpected semantic depth in both the storytelling tradition and everyday interaction.".
- catalog contributor b6130838.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-374) and index.".
- catalog description "Publisher description: Plains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains who spoke differing languages. Some researchers thought it had disappeared following the establishment of reservations and the adoption of English, but in this study Brenda Farnell documents that PST is still an integral component of the storytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture. Farnell's research challenges the Euro-American view of language as a matter of words only. In Nakota language practices, she asserts, words and gestures are equal partners in the creation of meaning. Drawing on Nakota narratives videotaped during field research at the Fort Belknap Reservation, northern Montana, she uses the movement script Labanotation to create texts of the movement content of these performances. Using them to analyze both spoken and gestural components, she builds an action-centered theory of "deixis" and spatial orientation that reveals unexpected semantic depth in both the storytelling tradition and everyday interaction.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 382 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Do you see what I mean?".
- catalog identifier "0292724802 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Do you see what I mean?".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Austin : University of Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "Do you see what I mean?".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains".
- catalog spatial "Great Plains.".
- catalog subject "302.2/22/08997077 20".
- catalog subject "Assiniboine Indians Folklore.".
- catalog subject "Culture Semiotic models.".
- catalog subject "E98.S5 F37 1995".
- catalog subject "Folklore Great Plains Performance.".
- catalog subject "Folklore Performance Great Plains.".
- catalog subject "Indian sign language Great Plains.".
- catalog subject "Semasiology.".
- catalog subject "Storytelling Great Plains.".
- catalog title "Do you see what I mean? : Plains Indian sign talk and the embodiment of action / Brenda Farnell.".
- catalog type "Folklore. fast".
- catalog type "text".