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Multicultural aspects of sociolinguistics in deaf communities
1 online resource (1 electronic text (235 pages) :) : illustrations, digital fil
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.
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v. 2