Sign Language in Action

✍ Scribed by Jemina Napier, Lorraine Leeson (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 350
• Series: Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains. The book gives professionals working with sign languages, signed language teachers and students, research students and their supervisors, authoritative access to current ideas and practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Understanding Applied Sign Linguistics....Pages 19-49
Sign Language in Action....Pages 50-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Learning and Teaching Sign Languages....Pages 87-118
Sign Language in Everyday Life....Pages 119-175
Sign Language in (Professional) Practice....Pages 176-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Conducting Research in Applied Sign Linguistics....Pages 233-266
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Key Resources....Pages 269-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-339

✦ Subjects

Translation; Sociolinguistics; Sign Language; Translation Studies