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 To the Lexicon and Beyond
Sociolinguistics in European Deaf Communities

Mieke Van Herreweghe and
Myriam Vermeerbergen, Editors

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Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities, Volume 10

Volume 10 of the series explores sociolinguistics in various European Deaf communities. Editors Van Herreweghe and Vermeerbergen present a wide array of research inspired by the Sociolinguistics Symposium 14 held at Ghent University, Belgium, in April 2002. Noted contributors from Finland, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom offer insights gleaned from the languages of their countries.

       Part One of this five-part volume investigates multilingualism and language contact among Finland-Swedish Deaf People. Part Two looks at regional variation and the evolution of signs in Flemish Sign Language, as well as gender-influenced variation in Irish Sign Language. Language policy and planning receives consideration in the third part, with a study of sign language lexical variation in the Netherlands and an analysis of the risks of codification in Flemish Sign Language. Part Four examines the implementation of bilingual programs for deaf students throughout Europe, and updates research on visually oriented language use in Swedish Deaf education classrooms.

       The final part of To the Lexicon and Beyond: Sociolinguistics in European Deaf Communities presents data on language attitudes, including a census of sign language users in Spain that reveal a changing language community. The last chapter of this fascinating assembly assays British Deaf communities and language identity in relation to issues of transnationality in the 21st century.

Mieke Van Herreweghe is a professor in the English Department at Ghent University in Belgium.

Myriam Vermeerbergen is a postdoctoral research fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders working at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium.

Print Edition: ISBN 978-1-56368-306-0, ISSN 1080-5494, 6 x 9 casebound, 272 pages, photographs, tables, figures, references, index

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