EPSCOR: Plains Indian Sign Language: Fieldwork and Digital Archive Project

EPSCOR：平原印第安手语：实地考察和数字档案项目

• 批准号: 0853665
• 负责人: Jeffrey Davis
• 金额: $ 10.04万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0853665&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EPSCOR; Plains; Indian; Sign; Language

Plains Indian Sign Language: Fieldwork and Digital Archive ProjectPlains Indian Sign Language (PISL) historically served various social and discourse functions within and between numerous American Indian communities of the Great Plains and cultural groups bordering this geographic area. Classified in the Sign Language family, PISL (also called sign talk) is distinct from American Sign Language (ASL) that is used in Deaf communities of the US and Canada. The use of PISL has dramatically declined from its widespread use as a lingua franca in previous times, due in part to its replacement by English, and ASL in some cases. Although PISL is an endangered language, and the extant number of varieties and users is unknown, it has not vanished; it is still used within some native groups in traditional storytelling, rituals, and conversational narratives by both deaf and hearing American Indians (e.g., Blackfeet, Crow, Mandan-Hidatsa, Nakota/Gros Ventre, and Northern Cheyenne, among others). There is an urgent need to document and provide linguistic descriptions of contemporary PISL varieties, and for sign language linguists to collaborate with deaf and hearing members of American Indian signing communities. With support of the National Science Foundation, sign language linguists Dr. Jeffrey Davis (University of Tennessee) and Melanie McKay-Cody (Chickamauga Cherokee/Choctaw; William Woods University, Fulton, MO) will collect contemporary sign language narratives of American Indians who know and use the PISL variety. The research team will provide comparative linguistic analyses, and integrate these new findings into the digital archive of American Indian sign language documentary materials previously collected in collaboration with the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives (with support of a 2006-2007 DEL NSF/NEH fellowship awarded to Davis). The one-year fieldwork and digital project will document the current sociolinguistic status of PISL; illuminate its linguistic nature and structure; produce an inventory of previously unknown materials; provide annotations and captions of various documentary materials and films; contribute to the revitalization of PISL in native communities where it once thrived; and make accessible to broader audiences this important yet often overlooked part of American Indian linguistic and cultural heritage.

平原印度手语：野外工作和数字档案计划印度手语（PISL）历史上为大平原和文化群体与该地理区域接壤的许多美洲印第安人社区内部和之间的各种社会和话语功能服务。 PISL（也称为标志谈话）被分类为“手语家族”，与美国和加拿大聋人社区使用的美国手语（ASL）不同。 PISL的使用从前时间的广泛使用中大幅下降，部分原因是它被英语替代，在某些情况下是ASL。 尽管PISL是一种濒临灭绝的语言，而现有的品种和用户数量尚不清楚，但它并未消失。它仍然在传统讲故事，仪式和对话叙事中的一些本地群体中使用，并听到了美国印第安人（例如Blackfeet，Crow，Crow，Mandan-Hidatsa，Nakota/Gros Ventre和Cheyenne Northern Cheyenne）。 迫切需要记录并提供有关当代PISL品种的语言描述，以及手语语言学家与美洲印第安人签名社区的聋哑和听力成员合作。 在国家科学基金会的支持下，手语语言学家杰弗里·戴维斯（Jeffrey Davis）博士（田纳西大学）和梅兰妮·麦凯·科迪（Melanie McKay-Cody）（Chickamauga Cherokee/Choctaw； Mo William Woods，MO）将收集了解和使用Pisl品种的美国印第安人的当代印第安人的现代手语叙事。 研究小组将提供比较语言分析，并将这些新发现与以前与史密森尼国家人类学档案馆合作收集的美洲印第安人手语纪录片材料的数字档案结合在一起（在2006-2007 del NSF/NEH奖学金的支持下，已授予戴维斯）。 为期一年的实地调查和数字项目将记录PISL当前的社会语言状况；照亮其语言的本质和结构；生产以前未知材料的清单；提供各种纪录片和电影的注释和标题；在曾经蓬勃发展的土著社区中振兴PISL；并让更广泛的观众可以进入这个重要但经常被忽视的美洲印度语言和文化遗产的一部分。