From the Great Plains to Australia
Ceil Lucas, Editor
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Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 12
The latest entry in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series continues to mine the rich resources found in signing communities throughout the world. Divided into four parts, this collection features 16 internationally renowned linguistics experts whose absorbing studies reflect an astonishing range of linguistic diversity.
The sole essay in Part One: Multilingualism describes historic and contemporary uses of North American Indian Sign Language. Part Two: Language Contact examines language-contact phenomena between Auslan/English interpreters and Deaf people in Australia, and the features of bimodal bilingualism in hearing, Italian, native signers. Part Three: Variation reports the results of a study on location variation in Australian Sign Language.
Part Four: Discourse Analysis begins with an analysis of how deaf parents and their hearing toddlers establish and maintain sight triangles when conducting signed conversations. The ensuing chapter explores the use of evaluation within an informal narrative in Langue des Signes Québécoise. The final chapter explicates how a signer depersonalizes the concept of “self” in an American Sign Language narrative through the use of signs for “he” and “I.”
Ceil Lucas is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Gallaudet University.
Print Edition: ISBN 978-1-56368-296-4, ISSN 1080-5494, 6 x 9 casebound, 296 pages, 12 tables, 66 figures, 11 illustrations, appendices
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E-Book: ISBN 978-1-56368-379-4
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