The Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community
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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.
Key Features
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@bul:This is a unified collection of the best and most current empirical studies of sociolinguistic issues in the deaf community, including topics such as:
@bul:* Studies of Sign Language Variation
* Language contact and Change
* Sign Language Policy
* Language Attitudes
* Sign Language Discourse Analysis
@bul:This is a unified collection of the best and most current empirical studies of sociolinguistic issues in the deaf community, including topics such as:
@bul:* Studies of Sign Language Variation
* Language contact and Change
* Sign Language Policy
* Language Attitudes
* Sign Language Discourse Analysis
Readership
Researchers and students of language and sign language structure and sociolinguists interested in both the deaf and spoken language communities; educators of the deaf and administrators of deaf education.
Table of Contents
- C. Lucas, Introduction.
Variation and Language Contact:
C. Lucas and C. Valli, Language Contact in the American Deaf Community.
R.E. Johnson and C. Erting, Ethnicity and Socialization in a Classroom for Deaf Children.
J. Davis, Distinguishing Language Contact Phenomena in ASL Interpretation.
A.J. Aramburo, Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community.
Language Policy:
C.L. Ramsey, Language Planning in Deaf Education.
E.A. Winston, Transliteration: What's the Message?.
S.A. Mather, Visually Oriented Teaching Strategies with Deaf Preschool Children.
Language Attitudes:
B. Kannapell, An Examination of Deaf College Students' Attitudes toward ASL and English.
J.W. Trotter, An Examination of Language Attitudes of Teachers of the Deaf.
Discourse Analysis:
C.B. Roy, Features of Discourse in an American Sign Language Lecture.
J. Zimmer, Toward a Description of Register Variation in American Sign Language.
E. Nowell, Conversational Features and Gender in ASL.
Index.
Product details
- No. of pages: 307
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 1989
- Published: August 28, 1989
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9781483296395
About the Editor
Ceil Lucas
Affiliations and Expertise
Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
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