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: 362
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.

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