Multicultural aspects of sociolinguistics in deaf communities /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lucas, Ceil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 1996.
Series:Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v. 2.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.