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Author : Ceil Lucas
Release : 2015-02-12
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 940/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities by : Ceil Lucas
Download or read book Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities written by Ceil Lucas. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.
Author : Ceil Lucas
Release : 1996
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 080/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities by : Ceil Lucas
Download or read book Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities written by Ceil Lucas. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ceil Lucas
Release : 2003
Genre : American Sign Language
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 431/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Language and the Law in Deaf Communities by : Ceil Lucas
Download or read book Language and the Law in Deaf Communities written by Ceil Lucas. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Release : 2014-05-19
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 393/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community by : Ceil Lucas
Download or read book The Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community written by Ceil Lucas. This book was released on 2014-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : David Quinto-Pozos
Release : 2007
Genre : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
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Book Rating : 565/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sign Languages in Contact by : David Quinto-Pozos
Download or read book Sign Languages in Contact written by David Quinto-Pozos. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series describes various accounts of contact between sign languages worldwide to further understand structural and social factors of this linguistic component.
