Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf CommunitiesCeil Lucas, editor.
- Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, (c)1996. [Place of publication not identified] : Gallaudet University Press, (c)2001.
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (235 pages) :) : illustrations, digital file.
- Sociolinguistics in deaf communities ; v. 2 .
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Variation in the deaf community : gay, lesbian, and bisexual signs -- Everyone here speaks sign language, too : a deaf village in Bali, Indonesia -- Bilingual deaf education in Venezuela : linguistic comments on the current situation -- What's a clock? "Suppose the alarm lights are flashing -- " : sociolinguistic and educational implications of comparing ASL and English word definitions -- Initiation in visually constructed dialogue : reading books with three-to eight-year-old students who are deaf and hard of hearing -- Pragmatic aspects of the interrogative form in Italian Sign Language -- The tobacco story : narrative structure in an American Sign Language story -- Just how hard is it to learn ASL? : the case for ASL as a truly foreign language.
9781563682643
Sociolinguistics. Deaf--Education. American Sign Language--Social aspects. Sign language--Social aspects.