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Irish Sign Language

Irish Sign Language
Author: Lorraine (University of Dublin Trinity College Dublin) Leeson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0748656294

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As the only book of its kind, this book describes the social and historical background of this signed language and places Irish Sign Language in a world context. The Signs of Ireland corpus is used to introduce phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.It also examines the key influences driving signed language linguistics in the past decade, including: recognition of the role of gesture; the influence of cognitive linguistics; the complexities of iconic representation in signing space; the role of simultaneous construction; and the grammar of ISL. All examples listed are drawn from the Signs of Ireland corpus, one of the largest digital corpora of a signed language in Europe, and are included on the accompanying DVD. An essential resource for sign language teachers and interpreters, students of sign linguistics, and learners of ISL in Ireland, this book offers new insights into the role of gesture, spatial models, iconicity, metaphor, and metonymy in ISL grammar, vocabulary and discourse.


Mouth Actions in Sign Languages

Mouth Actions in Sign Languages
Author: Susanne Mohr
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2014-08-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781614514985

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Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their form and functions remain uncertain. This first empirical analysis of mouth actions in Irish Sign Language focuses on correlations with gender, age, and word class. It contributes to the linguistic description of ISL, research into non-manuals in sign languages, and is relevant for the cross-modal study of word classes.


Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

Sign Language Ideologies in Practice
Author: Annelies Kusters
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501510096

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This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.


The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages
Author: Maartje De Meulder
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788924029

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This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It comprises 18 studies from communities across Europe, the US, South America, Asia and New Zealand. They set sign language legislation within the national context of language policies in each country and show patterns of intersection between language ideologies, public policy and deaf communities’ discourses. The chapters are grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislative campaigns. Each one describes a deaf community’s expectations and hopes for legal recognition and the type of sign language legislation achieved. The chapters also discuss the strategies used in achieving the passage of the legislation, as well as an account of barriers confronted and surmounted (or not) in the legislative process. The book will be of interest to language activists in the fields of sign language and other minority languages, policymakers and researchers in deaf studies, sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, human rights law and applied linguistics.


Sign Languages of the World

Sign Languages of the World
Author: Julie Bakken Jepsen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1018
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 150150102X

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Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.


Ireland as Gaeilge

Ireland as Gaeilge
Author: Olga Balaeva
Publisher: Orpen Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786050420

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Are you confused by all the Irish language signs you see around you? Do you wonder if and when the Irish actually speak Irish? After spending thirteen years learning Irish in school, why do so few Irish people actually speak it? Ireland as Gaeilge tells the story of the Irish language in a popular and engaging way, combining historical and linguistic facts with a light tone. Written by a Russian linguist living in Ireland, it gives an outsider’s perspective on this most national of subjects. Ireland as Gaeilge: Explains the impact of Irish history on the fortunes of the Irish languageDiscusses the present state of the languageLooks at everyday manifestations of Irish in Irish societyExplores the linguistic peculiarities of Irish and how the English and Irish languages have influenced each otherExamines the role of Irish in the international arena Ireland as Gaeilge will appeal to tourists, especially those with Irish connections, long-term visitors/residents (international students and professionals) and Irish people who are less familiar with the Irish language and are willing to give it a second chance.


Sign Language in Action

Sign Language in Action
Author: Jemina Napier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137309776

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This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains. The book gives professionals working with sign languages, signed language teachers and students, research students and their supervisors, authoritative access to current ideas and practice.


Irish/ness Is All Around Us

Irish/ness Is All Around Us
Author: Olaf Zenker
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857459147

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Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of 'Irish culture' in the domains of language, music, dance and sports. The author's theoretical approach to ethnicity and ethnic revivals presents an expanded explanatory framework for the social (re)production of ethnicity, theorizing the mutual interrelations between representations and cultural practices regarding their combined capacity to engender ethnic revivals. Relevant not only to readers with an interest in the intricacies of the Northern Irish situation, this book also appeals to a broader readership in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and political science concerned with the mechanisms behind ethnonational conflict and the politics of culture and identity in general.


Topics in Signed Language Interpreting

Topics in Signed Language Interpreting
Author: Terry Janzen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005-10-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027294151

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Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice. Yet interpreting into and from signed languages presents unique challenges for the interpreter, who works with language that must be seen rather than heard. The contributions in this volume focus on topics of interest to both students of signed language interpreting and practitioners working in community, conference, and education settings. Signed languages dealt with include American Sign Language, Langue des Signes Québécoise and Irish Sign Language, although interpreters internationally will find the discussion in each chapter relevant to their own language context. Topics concern theoretical and practical components of the interpreter’s work, including interpreters’ approaches to language and meaning, their role on the job and in the communities within which they work, dealing with language variation and consumer preferences, and Deaf interpreters as professionals in the field.


To the Lexicon and Beyond

To the Lexicon and Beyond
Author: Myriam Vermeerbergen
Publisher: Sociolinguistics in Deaf Commu
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

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Volume 10 of the series explores sociolinguistics in various European Deaf communities in Finland, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom.