The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages

Höfundur: Ceil Lucas (Útgáfa: 1)
The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages

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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.

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Útgefandi
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9780511031502
Print ISBN
9780521791373
Format
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Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Ceil Lucas
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2001-10-04
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
10
Prent takmörkun
5
Afritunar takmörkun
5

Kaflar

  • Half-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Multilingualism: The global approach to sign languages
  • Sign languages used by hearing people
  • How many languages are there?
  • Mutual intelligibility
  • The problem of nomenclature for sign languages
  • “Planned” signed languages that are not used by Deaf communities
  • The “standard” and the importance of dictionaries
  • Statistical approaches to the definition of languages
  • Sign languages in Europe
  • Historical relationships
  • World politics
  • Educational systems
  • Suggested Readings
  • Exercises
  • 3 Bilingualism and language contact
  • Societal and individual bilingualism in the hearing world
  • Canada
  • Belgium
  • Singapore
  • Societal and individual bilingualism in the Deaf world
  • Martha’s Vineyard in the USA
  • A Yucatec Mayan village, Mexico
  • Desa Kolok in Bali, Indonesia
  • Bilingualism in most of the Deaf world
  • Diglossia
  • The transfer hypothesis: The influence of a first language upon the second
  • Language shift
  • Loan vocabulary in spoken languages
  • “Loan” phenomena in sign language situations
  • Mouthing
  • Pidgins and creoles
  • Code switching and code mixing
  • Conclusions
  • Suggested readings
  • Exercises
  • 4 Sociolinguistic variation
  • The study of linguistic variation
  • The sociolinguistic variable
  • Variable units in spoken languages
  • Variable processes in spoken languages
  • Linguistic variation in spoken languages
  • Early studies of variation in spoken languages
  • Large-scale urban studies
  • Recent research on sociolinguistic variation in spoken languages
  • Sociolinguistic variation and language change
  • Summary
  • Linguistic variation in sign languages
  • Variation in ASL
  • Research on African American signing
  • An international perspective on variation in sign languages
  • Perspectives on the structure of sign languages
  • Sign languages vs. spoken languages
  • Variable units in sign and spoken languages
  • Variable processes in spoken and sign languages
  • Internal constraints on spoken and sign languages
  • Social constraints particular to Deaf communities
  • Three recent studies of variation in ASL
  • An exploratory case study of a phonological variable
  • A large scale quantitative study: Lucas et al. (2001) on DEAF
  • Summary of the studies
  • Methodological issues for the studies
  • Conclusions
  • Suggested readings
  • Exercises
  • NOTES
  • 5 Discourse analysis
  • Discourse structure
  • Discourse action and interaction
  • Context and discourse
  • Methodological approaches to discourse analysis
  • Speech act theory
  • Interactional sociolinguistics
  • Ethnography of communication
  • Pragmatics
  • Conversation analysis
  • Variation analysis
  • Features of sign language discourse
  • Turntaking
  • Conversational repair
  • Discourse markers
  • Constructing dialogue and action
  • Cohesion
  • Rhythm, rhyme and repetition
  • The relevance of discourse genre
  • Conclusion
  • Suggested readings
  • Exercises
  • 6 Language planning and policy
  • The nature and purposes of language planning
  • Ideologies of language policy
  • The language planning process
  • Language rights and language policy
  • Evaluating language policies
  • Conclusions
  • Suggested readings
  • Exercises
  • NOTES
  • APPENDIX 6.1 STATEMENT ON THE RECOGNITION OF THE NATIONAL SIGN LANGUAGES OF THE DEAF PASSED AT THE T
  • Comment
  • The statement
  • APPENDIX 6.2 WORLD FEDERATION OF THE DEAF CALLS FOR RECOGNITION OF SIGN LANGUAGES
  • 7 Language attitudes
  • Why study language attitudes?
  • Definitions
  • Early research on language attitudes
  • How are language attitudes studied?
  • Content analysis
  • Direct measurement
  • Indirect measurement
  • Questions addressed by language attitude studies
  • Attitudes toward languages
  • Attitudes toward language groups
  • Language and identity
  • Theories of language attitudes: Answers to the questions
  • Consequences and applications
  • Second language
  • Employers’ hiring practices
  • Mass media
  • Education
  • Changes in language attitudes
  • Conclusions
  • Suggested readings
  • Exercises
  • NOTES
  • Bibliography
  • Index