MEDIA (5)
Yucatec Maya Sign Language is considered an emergent language inasmuch its creation is relatively recent and has no previous language. In this short talk, Dr. Le Guen speaks, not only about this trait but about the importance of language, its implications, and potentialities in linguistic studies.
In Mexico, there are more than 360 original linguistic variants, to this are added others like sign language, which, in the case of the Yucatan peninsula are largely based on Mayan multimodal communication.
This interview is about inclusion and social commitments regarding people with hearing disability conditions. Dr. Le Guen explains how, among the Yucatec Maya community, there is no criteria form normality and hence exclusion.
In this interview Dr. Olivier Le Guen tells us about his experience since the beginning of his research and his interest about Maya culture.
Parting from the experience in the research project Dr. Le Guen tells us about how the Yucatec Maya community out of its cultural tradition, how it integrates people with hearing disability without creating distinctions or barriers and doing so spontaneously. In many way, the creation of Yucatec Maya Sign Language as a language does not separate from the Mayan culture and concepts.
