Angela M Nonaka

Biography

Research Interests:

Language Socialization, Social Foundations of Language, Language Ideologies, Language Ecology, Language Diversity and Language Endangerment, Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, Anthropological Fieldwork Methods, Descriptive Linguistics, Asian Studies, Anthropology of Disability.

Selected Publications:

2011. Language endangerment and language socialization. (In Duranti, A.; Ochs, E. and Schieffelin, B. (eds.) Handbook of language socialization. Wiley-Blackwell Press, 610-630.

2010. Interrogatives in Ban Khor Sign Language: A preliminary description. In Mathur, G. &  Napoli, D.J. (eds.) Deaf around the world: The impact of language. Oxford University Press, 194-220.

2009. Estimating size, scope, and membership of the speech/sign communities of undocumented indigenous/village sign languages: The Ban Khor case study. Language and Communication 29: 210-229.

2004. The forgotten endangered languages: Lessons on the importance of remembering from Thailand’s Ban Khor Sign Language. Language in Society 33: 737- 767.

1999. Learning Thai Sign Language Volumes #1-4. (English language translation). Bangkok: General Education Department and the National Association of the Deaf in Thailand.

Selected Grants and Fellowships:

• 2009-(2013) “Linguistic Anthropological Description and Analysis of Ban Khor Sign Language,” (EuroBabel Initiative) National Science Foundation (US$250,000).
• 2011-(12) Hunt Fellowship, a writing a publication fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (US$40,000).
• 2010 “Teaching and Learning Together about Language Endangerment: U.S.-Dutch, Deaf- Hearing Collaborative Education at the 2010 3L International Summer School in Language Documentation and Description,” National Science Foundation (US$17,000).
• 2003 “Pasa Bai: Language Socialization of an Indigenous Sign Language in a Northeastern Thai Village,” Wenner-Gren Foundation (US$20,000).
• 2003 “Pasa Bai: Language Socialization of an Indigenous Sign Language in a Northeastern Thai Village,” IIE Fulbright. 
• 2001 "Saving Signs from Ban Khor," a Field Research Grant, The Endangered Language Fund. 
• 2001 "Saving Signs from Ban Khor," an Exploration Fund Grant, The Explorers’ Club.

Selected Research Findings:

"Anthropologist Works to Preserve Dying Sign Languages in Thailand"