New Zealand
From AASL
| Name of the country/area | New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Formal name of the country/area | New Zealand |
| Country/area information | The World Factbook (CIA) |
| Wikipedia (English) |
Indigenous signs for "New Zealand"
Illustrations in the literature
"New Zealand" (In: Japanese Federation of the Deaf ed. Supervisor: Hedberg, Tomas. 2003. Country name-signs. Helsinki, Finland: World Federation of the Deaf. 17.)
Spoken languages
English
Maori
Sign languages
Related sign languages:
Australasian Sign Language (an attempt to merge Australian Sign Language and New Zealand Sign Language into one common sign language)
Population of Deaf/deaf people
Deaf Association of New Zealand ’s official or approximate number of Deaf people: 9,000. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.)
Legal status of sign languages
New Zealand Sign Language became the third official language of New Zealand in April 2006.
Organizations and associations of the Deaf/deaf
Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand (DANZ) (WFD member; established in 1977. (WFD. 2008. Global Survey Report. : See Bibliography below.))
Originally called the Deaf Association of New Zealand Incorporated, it was formed in November 1977. The Deaf Association of New Zealand Incorporated became Deaf Aotearoa New Zealand in June 2009.
Institutes, associations and universities for sign language studies
Education for the deaf
Deaf communities and cultures
Religious activities by the Deaf
Famous Deaf persons and hearing persons concerned with sign languages
Sign language dictionaries
Kennedy, Gtaeme, David McKee, RacheL. McKee, Richard Arnold, Pat Dugdale, Susan Fahey, and David. Moskovitz eds. 2002. A Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books.
Kennedy, Graeme et al. A dictionary of New Zealand sign. 1998. Auckland: Auckland University Press: Bridget Williams Books.
Bibliography
Schembri, Adam, Kearsy Cormier, Trevor Johnston, David McKee, Rachel McKee and Bencie woll. 2010. Sociolinguistic variation in British, Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages. In : Brentari, Diane ed. Sign Languages. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press. 476-498.
Mayer, Connie, Christine Miller and Ian Cockes. 2009. Educating Deaf and hard of hearing students in New Zealand. In: Moores, Donald F. and Margery S. Miller eds. Deaf people around the world: Educational and social perspectives. Washington,DC: Gallaudet University Press. 53-67.
Schembri, Adam, David McKee, Rachel McKee, Sara Pivac, Trevor Johnston and Della Goswell. 2009. Phonological variation and change in Australian and New Zealand Sign Languages: The location variable. In : Language Variation and Change, Volume 21, Issue 02, July 2009, pp 193-231.
Mckee, David, Racheｌ Mckee, K. Smiler and K. Pointon. 2008. Maori signs : The construction of indigenous deaf identity in New Zealand Sign Language. In : D. Quinto-Pozos ed. Sign Languages in Contact. Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press. 31-81.
Mckee, David., Rachel Mckee, and G. Major. 2008. Variation in the NZSL number system. In : Ronice Müller de Quadros eds. Sign Languages : Spinning and unraveling the past, present and future. Forty five papers and three posters from the 9° Theoretical Issues In Sign Language Research Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, December 2006. Editora Arara Azul. Brazil. 296-313.
World Federation of the Deaf and Swedish National Association of the Deaf. 2008. Global Survey Report. WFD Regional Secretariat for Asia and the Pacific (WFD RSA/P). Global Education Pre-Planning Project on the Human Rights of Deaf People. World Federation of the Deaf. Finland.
Mckee, Rachel. 2007. Hand to mouth : findings on the role of mouthing in New Zealand Sign Language. Paper presented at the Australian sign Language interpreters Association National conference, Macquarie University, Sydney.
McKee, Rachel. and David McKee. 2007. New Zealand Sign Language Grammar: A Guide for Learners. Occasional Publication No. 3, Revised version. Deaf Studies Research Unit, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington.
Smiler, Kirsten , and Rachel Locker McKee. 2007. Perceptions of Maori identity in New Zealand. In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 12(1) : 93-111.
McKee, Rachel. 2006. Aspects of interrogatives and negation in New Zealand Sign Language. In Ulrike Zeshan ed. Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series, No.1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press, 69 -90.
Pivac, Lynette. 2006. In memory of two remarkable women In : New Zealand Sign Language Tutors Association web page.
2006. New Zealand Sign Language Bill : In Committee
2006. Governor-General gives assent to Sign Language Bill., Press Release: Governor General, 10 April 2006.
2006. Recognition for sign language In : TVNZ web site.
Deaf Education Aotearoa New Zealand(DEANZ). 2005. The national plan for the education of children and young people who are Deaf or hearing impaired in Aotearoal New Zealand(2nd rev.ed.) [Retrieved July 9, 2008]
McKee, Rachel and Graeme Kennedy. 2005. New Zealand Sign Language. In Bell, Allan, Ray Harlow and Donna Starks eds. Languages of New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 271-297.
McKee, Rachel. 2005. Aspects of interrogatives and negation in New Zealand Sign Language. In : Zeshan, Ulrike. ed. Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press. 70-.
Forman, Wayne. 2003. The ABC’s of New Zealand Sign Language : Aerial spelling. In : Journal of Deaf studies and Deaf Education. 8(1). 92-96.
Monaghan, Leila. 2003. A world's eye view: Deaf cultures in global perspective. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 1-24. [Including information of Africa (general),Asia (general), and Oceania (general) ]
Parsons, M. 2003. Advisors on deaf children: A New Zealand initiative-An overview 1957-2003. Wellington, NZ : Ministry of Education.
Smith, Eileen. 2003. ‘Deaf Ways’: The literacy teaching strategies of deaf teachers in New Zealand. Master’s thesis, Victoria University of Wellington.
Sutton-Spence, Rachel. 2003. British manual Alphabets in the education of Deaf people since the 17th century. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 25-48.
Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies ed.(translated by Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 2003. The human rights of the Deaf: Able to use sign language at anytime and everywhere. In:Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 50.(2003.12):57,60-61.[WFD News. Jul.2003. Including information of Uganda, Thailand and New Zealand ]
McKee, Rachel. 2001. People of the Eye: Stories from the Deaf World. Beidget Williams Books. New Zealand.
Dugdale, Patricia 2001. Talking Hands, Listening Eyes. Deaf Association of New Zealand.
Dugdale, Patricia. 2000. Being Deaf in New Zealand : A case study of the Wellington Deaf community. PhD dissertation : Victoria University of Wellington.
Johnston, Trevor. 2000. BSL, Auslan and NZSL: Three Signed Languages or One? In : Baker, Anne, Beppie van den Bogaerde and Onno Crasborn eds. Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers from TISLR 2000. 2003. Hamburg: Signum Verlag. 47-69.
McKee, David and Graeme Kennedy. 2000. Lexical Comparisons of Signs from American, Australian, British and New Zealand Sign Languages. In : Emmorey, Karen and Harlan Lane eds. The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology to Honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. 43-73.
2000. New Zealand. : In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 150-151.
Monaghan, Leila(Pitzer College). 1998. The rise of Deaf ideologies and institutions in New Zealand. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :52-53. (translated by Nakamura, Karen: in Japanese) [the report from the invited panel on sign language sociolinguistics at the 96th Annual Meeting of the America Anthropological Association. Washington DC. Nov.11-19 1997]
Monaghan, Leila. 1996. Signing, oralism and the development of the New Zealand deaf community: An ethnography and history of language ideologies. Ph.D.dissertation. Los Angeles: University of California.
Nuthall, Beatrice. 1996. Kelston Deaf education centre: Pilot bilingual programme, January 1995-December 1996. Aukland, NZ : Kelston Deaf education centre.
Collins-Ahlgren, Marianne. 1994. Issues in preparing and presenting a dictionary of New Zealand signs. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 335-341.
Townshend, S. 1993. The hands just have to move: Deaf education in New Zealand-A perspective from the Deaf community. Palmerston North, NZ : Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Massey University. Unpublished master's thesis.
Monaghan, Leila. 1993. Contexts of luck: Issues involved with entering the New Zealand Deaf community. Anthropology UCLA. 20:43-62.
Aspden, Peter, John Devere, John Hunt, Leila Monaghan and Lynette Pivac. 1992. Celebrating 50 years deaf schools in Auckland, 1942-1992. Auckland, New Zealand: Kelston Deaf Education Centre.
van Asch, C. 1989. Gerrit van Asch: Pioneer of oral education of the Deaf. Christchurch, NZ : Caxton Press.
Collins-Ahlgren, Marianne. 1989. Aspects of New Zealand sign. Ph.D. dissertation. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington.
Parsons, Michael B. 1987. New Zealand. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York : McGraw-Hill. vol.2. 239-240.
Stewart, P. 1982. To turn the key: The history of Deaf education in New Zealand. New Zealand : University of Otago. Unpublished master's thesis.
A., Allen B. 1980. They hear with the eye: A Centennial history of the summer school for Deaf children. Christchurch, NZ 1880-1980. Wellington, New Zealand: School publication branch, Department of Education.
ASLDP. 1979. Aid to communication with the Deaf. Auckland, NZ : Kelston school for the Deaf.
Ballingall, Peter. 1971. The sign language of Deaf children in New Zealand. University of Auckland, New Zealand. Unpublished manuscript.
Researchers
History of sign language research
Events
Links
Think.Sign. New Zealand Sign Language Week
New Zealand Sign Language Dictionary
New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) Signs
Deaf cultures and Sign Languages of the world: New Zealand
New Zealand Sign Language Teacher's Association
SLIANZ (Sign Language Interpreters Association of New Zealand)
Examples of videos in New Zealand Sign Language., on the website of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission.
Notes
| Oceania (general) | Oceania (general) |
|---|---|
| Continent | Australia |
| Polynesia | Kiribati | New Zealand | Samoa | Tonga | Tuvalu |
| Micronesia | Federated States of Micronesia | Marshall Islands | Nauru | Palau |
| Melanesia | Fiji | Papua New Guinea | Solomon Islands | Vanuatu |
| Areas and others |
