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Sign language ideologies in practice /

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Green, Mara (Editor), Kusters, Annelies (Editor), Moriarty, Erin (Editor), Snoddon, Kristin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]
Series:Sign languages and deaf communities ; 12.
Subjects:
Sign language.
Langage par signes.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Sign language
Applied Linguistics.
Deaf Studies.
Intercultural Studies.
Sign Language Studies.
Sociolinguistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 352 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:9781501510090
1501510096
9781501510021
1501510029