The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages write by Ceil Lucas. This book was released on 2001-10-04. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an accessible introduction to the major areas of sociolinguistics as they relate to sign languages and deaf communities. Clearly organised, it brings together a team of leading experts in sign linguistics to survey the field, and covers a wide range of topics including variation, multilingualism, bilingualism, language attitudes, discourse analysis, language policy and planning. The book examines how sign languages are distributed around the world; what occurs when they come in contact with spoken and written languages; and how signers use them in a variety of situations. Each chapter introduces the key issues in each area of inquiry and provides a comprehensive review of the literature. The book also includes suggestions for further reading and helpful exercises. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages will be welcomed by students in deaf studies, linguistics and interpreter training, as well as spoken language researchers, and researchers and teachers of sign language.
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics write by Rajend Mesthrie. This book was released on 2011-10-06. The Cambridge Handbook of Sociolinguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most comprehensive overview available, this Handbook is an essential guide to sociolinguistics today. Reflecting the breadth of research in the field, it surveys a range of topics and approaches in the study of language variation and use in society. As well as linguistic perspectives, the handbook includes insights from anthropology, social psychology, the study of discourse and power, conversation analysis, theories of style and styling, language contact and applied sociolinguistics. Language practices seem to have reached new levels since the communications revolution of the late twentieth century. At the same time face-to-face communication is still the main force of language identity, even if social and peer networks of the traditional face-to-face nature are facing stiff competition of the Facebook-to-Facebook sort. The most authoritative guide to the state of the field, this handbook shows that sociolinguistics provides us with the best tools for understanding our unfolding evolution as social beings.
Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities
Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities write by Ceil Lucas. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.
Sign Language and Linguistic Universals
Sign Language and Linguistic Universals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sign Language and Linguistic Universals write by Wendy Sandler. This book was released on 2006-02-02. Sign Language and Linguistic Universals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sign languages are of great interest to linguists, because while they are the product of the same brain, their physical transmission differs greatly from that of spoken languages. In this pioneering and original study, Wendy Sandler and Diane Lillo-Martin compare sign languages with spoken languages, in order to seek the universal properties they share. Drawing on general linguistic theory, they describe and analyze sign language structure, showing linguistic universals in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of sign language, while also revealing non-universal aspects of its structure that must be attributed to its physical transmission system. No prior background in sign language linguistics is assumed, and numerous pictures are provided to make descriptions of signs and facial expressions accessible to readers. Engaging and informative, Sign Language and Linguistic Universals will be invaluable to linguists, psychologists, and all those interested in sign languages, linguistic theory and the universal properties of human languages.
Sign Languages in Village Communities
Sign Languages in Village Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sign Languages in Village Communities write by Ulrike Zeshan. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Sign Languages in Village Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
