Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

✍ Scribed by Annelies Kusters (editor); Mara Green (editor); Erin Moriarty (editor); Kristin Snoddon (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 364
Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]; 12
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction – Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
Part I: Sign language ideologies: Setting the scene
Interrogating sign language ideologies in the Saskatchewan deaf community: An autoethnography
Bla, Bla, Bla: Understanding inaccessibility through Mexican Sign Language expressions
The ideology of communication practices embedded in an Australian deaf/hearing dance collaboration
“Goat-Sheep-Mixed-Sign” in Lhasa – Deaf Tibetans’ language ideologies and unimodal codeswitching in Tibetan and Chinese sign languages, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Part II: Sign language ideologies in teaching
The impact of student and teacher ASL ideologies on the use of English in the ASL classroom
Finding interpreters who can “OPEN-THEIR-MIND”: How Deaf teachers select sign language interpreters in Hà Nội, Việt Nam
Teaching sign language to parents of deaf children in the name of the CEFR: Exploring tensions between plurilingual ideologies and ASL pedagogical ideologies
Part III: Sign language and literacy ideologies
Permissive vs. prohibitive: Deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ perceptions of ASL and English
An exploration of language ideologies across English literacy and sign languages in multiple modes in Uganda and Ghana
Feeling what we write, writing what we feel: Written sign language literacy and intersomaticity in a German classroom
Interplays of pragmatism and language ideologies: Deaf and deafblind people’s literacy practices in gesture-based interactions
Part IV: Sign language ideologies in language planning and policy
Bị and being: Spoken language dominant disability-oriented development and Vietnamese deaf self-determination
35 years and counting! An ethnographic analysis of sign language ideologies within the Irish Sign Language recognition campaign
Ideologies and attitudes toward American Sign Language: Processes of academic language and academic cocabulary coinage
Exploring sign language histories and documentation projects in post-conflict areas
Part V: Conclusion – Ideology, authority, and power
Ideology, authority, and power
Language Index
Subject Index

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