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Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages

Foreign Vocabulary in Sign Languages
Author: Diane Brentari
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2001-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113567034X

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This volume explores the grammatical and social contexts for borrowing from various spoken languages into their corresponding sign languages (e.g., from English into ASL). For graduate and professional-level (psycho)linguists and deaf studies specialists


Sign Language Phonology

Sign Language Phonology
Author: Diane Brentari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107113474

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Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.


The American Sign Language Phrase Book

The American Sign Language Phrase Book
Author: Louie J. Fant
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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The American Sign Language Phrase Book functions as both an instant reference tool and a long-term study guide for those interested in understanding and utilizing ASL.


Signing Fun

Signing Fun
Author: Penny Warner
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781563682926

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For ages 11 and up, this fun book presents 441 signs on a variety of topics, practice sentences, dozens of entertaining games, and tips on signing and fingerspelling.


The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact

The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact
Author: Salikoko Mufwene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 850
Release: 2022-06-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009115766

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Language contact - the linguistic and social outcomes of two or more languages coming into contact with each other - starts with the emergence of multilingual populations. Multilingualism involving plurilingualism can have various consequences beyond borrowing, interference, and code-mixing and -switching, including the emergence of lingua francas and new language varieties, as well as language endangerment and loss. Bringing together contributions from an international team of scholars, this Handbook - the second in a two-volume set - engages the reader with the manifold aspects of multilingualism and provides state-of-the-art research on the impact of population structure on language contact. It begins with an introduction that presents the history of the scholarship on the subject matter. The chapters then cover various processes and theoretical issues associated with multilingualism embedded in specific population structures worldwide as well as their outcomes. It is essential reading for anybody interested in how people behave linguistically in multilingual or multilectal settings.


Sign Languages in Village Communities

Sign Languages in Village Communities
Author: Ulrike Zeshan
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614511497

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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.


Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities

Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities
Author: Adam C. Schembri
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1316240266

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How do people use sign languages in different situations around the world? How are sign languages distributed globally? What happens when they come in contact with spoken and written languages? These and other questions are explored in this new introduction to the sociolinguistics of sign languages and deaf communities. An international team brings insights and data from a wide range of sign languages, from the USA, Canada, England, Spain, Brazil and Australia. Topics covered include multilingualism in the global deaf community, sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages, bilingualism and language contact between signed and spoken languages, attitudes towards sign languages, sign language planning and policy, and sign language discourse. Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities will be welcomed by students of sign language and interpreting, teachers of sign language, and students and academics working in linguistics.


Turn-taking, Fingerspelling and Contact in Signed Languages

Turn-taking, Fingerspelling and Contact in Signed Languages
Author: Ceil Lucas
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781563681288

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This volume elucidates several key factors of the signed languages used in select international Deaf communities. Kristin Mulrooney studies ASL users to delve into the reasons behind the perceived differences in how men and women fingerspell. Bruce Sofinski assesses the current state of transliteration from spoken English to manually coded English, disclosing that competent transliterators do not necessarily produce the desired word-for-sign exchange. In the third chapter, Paul Dudis comments upon a remarkable aspect of discourse in ASL-grounded blends. He discusses how signers map particular concepts onto their hands and bodies, which allows them to enrich their narrative strategies. By observing meetings of deaf and nonsigning hearing people in the Flemish Deaf community, Mieke Van Herreweghe determines whether interpreters' turn-taking practices allow for equal participation. And the final chapter features a respected team of Spanish researchers led by Esperanza Morales-Lopez who investigate the Catalan/Spanish bilingual community in Barcelona. These scholars measure the influence of recent worldwide, Deaf sociopolitical movements advocating signed languages on deaf groups already familiar with bilingual education.


Formational Units in Sign Languages

Formational Units in Sign Languages
Author: Rachel Channon
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-10-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614510687

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Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are many similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. The articulators are more visible and use larger muscles with consequent greater effort. It is difficult to visually attend to both a sign and an object at the same time. Iconicity is more systematic and more available in signs. The body, especially the face, plays a much larger role in sign. Sign languages are more frequently born anew as small groups of deaf people come together in villages or schools. Sign languages often borrow from the written form of the surrounding spoken language, producing fingerspelling alphabets, character signs, and related signs. This book examines the effects of these and other differences using observation, experimentation and theory. The languages examined include Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American sign languages, and language situations include home signers and small village signers, children, gesturers, adult signers, and non-native signers.