Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 31,42 MB
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107051940
This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.
Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781563681431
Three attorneys and three linguistics scholars contribute five essays focusing on the intersection of language and law in deaf communities. Coverage includes the language problems of minorities in legal settings, the interrogation of deaf people, interpretation issues for juries that include deaf pe
Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1483296393
This is a unified collection of the best and most current empirical studies of socio-linguistic issues in the deaf community, including topics such as studies of sign language variation, language contact and change, and sign language policy. Established linguistic concerns with deaf language are reexamined and redefined, and several new issues of general importance to all sociolinguists are raised and explored. This is a book which interests all sociolinguists as well as deaf professionals, teachers of the deaf, sign language interpreters, and anyone else dealing on a day-to-day basis with the everyday language choices that deaf persons must make. This is a unified collection of the best and most current empirical studies of sociolinguistic issues in the deaf community, including topics such as: - Studies of Sign Language Variation - Language contact and Change - Sign Language Policy - Language Attitudes - Sign Language Discourse Analysis
Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781563681080
Eight studies demonstrate the diverse patterns by which deaf people around the world interact with their hearing societies, and document changing attitudes among the deaf about their role in society. The topics include a village in Indonesia with so many deaf people that hearing people are fluent in both sign and spoken languages; variation in signing among gays, lesbians, and bisexuals; bilingual deaf education in Venezuela; visually constructed dialogue with young students; the interrogative in Italian Sign Language; and American Sign Language as a truly foreign language no more difficult to learn than any other. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Joseph Christopher Hill
Publisher : Sociolinguistics in Deaf Commu
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781563685453
Hill's new study shows various contradictions in the use of signed languages by exploring the linguistic and social factors that govern such stereotypical perceptions of social groups about signing differences.
Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 29,66 MB
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521794749
This is an accessible introduction to the major areas of sociolinguistics as they relate to sign languages and deaf communities. Clearly organised, it brings together a team of leading experts in sign linguistics to survey the field, and covers a wide range of topics including variation, multilingualism, bilingualism, language attitudes, discourse analysis, language policy and planning. The book examines how sign languages are distributed around the world; what occurs when they come in contact with spoken and written languages; and how signers use them in a variety of situations. Each chapter introduces the key issues in each area of inquiry and provides a comprehensive review of the literature. The book also includes suggestions for further reading and helpful exercises. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages will be welcomed by students in deaf studies, linguistics and interpreter training, as well as spoken language researchers, and researchers and teachers of sign language.
Author : Ila Parasnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1998-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521645652
This edited book presents an detailed analysis of the experience of deaf people as a bilingual-bicultural minority group in America. An overview of mainstream research on bilingualism and biculturalism is followed by specific research and conceptual analyses which examine the impact of cultural and language diversity on the experiences of deaf people. The book ends with poignant personal reflections from deaf community members. The contributors include prominent deaf and hearing experts in bilingualism, ASL and Deaf culture, and deaf education.
Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : Brill Academic Pub
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780124580404
Describes language contact in the deaf community within the larger context of studies of language contact. This book reviews issues and research on language contact. It discusses the educational and teaching implications of findings with regard to language contact in the deaf community.
Author : Timothy G. Reagan
Publisher : Gallaudet Sociolinguistics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781563684623
The sixteenth volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series provides both knowledgeable language policymakers and sign language experts the information and means to apply their expertise jointly for future language planning for sign languages.
Author : Ulrike Zeshan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1614511497
The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These sign languages represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality, and the book is the first compilation of a substantial number of different "village sign languages".Written by leading experts in the field, the volume uniquely combines anthropological and linguistic insights, looking at both the social dynamics and the linguistic structures in these village communities. The book includes primary data from eleven different signing communities across the world, including results from Jamaica, India, Turkey, Thailand, and Bali. All known village sign languages are endangered, usually because of pressure from larger urban sign languages, and some have died out already. Ironically, it is often the success of the larger sign language communities in urban centres, their recognition and subsequent spread, which leads to the endangerment of these small minority sign languages. The book addresses this specific type of language endangerment, documentation strategies, and other ethical issues pertaining to these sign languages on the basis of first-hand experiences by Deaf fieldworkers.
