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This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus the volume is highly innovative and presents...

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Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: Webster, Jennifer (Editor), Zeshan, Ulrike (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]
Series:Sign Language Typology [SLT] ; 7
Subjects:
Code switching (Linguistics)
Deaf people > Means of communication.
Multilingual communication.
Sign language.
Sign Language
Gebärdensprache.
Multilingualism.
Sign Language.
Changement de code (Linguistique)
Personnes sourdes > Moyens de communication.
Communication multilingue.
Langage par signes.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.
Deaf people > Means of communication
Multilingual communication
Sign language
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • About this book
  • Part I
  • Forces shaping sign multilingualism / Adamou, Evangelia / Crasborn, Onno / Webster, Jenny / Zeshan, Ulrike
  • Repair in cross-signing: Trouble sources, repair strategies and communicative success / Byun, Kang-Suk / Vos, Connie de / Zeshan, Ulrike / Levinson, Stephen
  • Two languages at hand
  • Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers / Zeshan, Ulrike / Panda, Sibaji
  • Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation / Bradford, Tashi / Michaelis, Susanne / Zeshan, Ulrike
  • A minimalist perspective on code blending in TİD
  • Turkish bimodal bilingualism
  • Blending languages: Bimodal bilinguals and language synthesis / Quadros, Ronice Müller de / Lillo-Martin, Diane / Pichler, Deborah Chen
  • Methodological innovations in sign multilingualism research / Webster, Jenny / Byun, Kang-Suk / Panda, Sibaji / Bradford, Tashi
  • Part II
  • Burundi Sign Language-Indian Sign Language bilinguals' community of practice / Panda, Sibaji
  • A community profile of "sign-speakers" at the Indore Deaf Bilingual Academy / Panda, Sibaji
  • Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in the UK / Bradford, Tashi
  • Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in India / Bradford, Tashi
  • Community profile of an international group of sign language users: Linguistic and social aspects / Byun, Kang-Suk
  • Language Index
  • Subject Index