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To the lexicon and beyond : sociolinguistics in European deaf communities / Mieke Van Herreweghe and Myriam Vermeerbergen, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v.10.
- Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v.10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaf people--Means of communication.
- Deaf people.
- Sociolinguistics--Deaf--Europe.
- Sign language--Deaf--Europe.
- Educational methods--Deaf education--Europe.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociolinguistics--Deaf--Europe.
- Sign language--Deaf--Europe.
- Educational methods--Deaf education--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Volume 10 of the series explores sociolinguistics in various European Deaf communities in Finland, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom.
- Contents:
- Multilingualism and language contact: The sociolinguistic situation of Finland-Swedish deaf people and their language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language / Karin Hoyer
- Variation: Regional variation in Flemish Sign Language / Eline Vanhecke and Kristof De Weerdt; To the lexicon and beyond, the effect of gender on variation in Irish Sign Language / Lorraine Leeson and Carmel Grehan; Hard and hard and hard, the same sign? on the evolution of signs in Flemish Sign Language / Iris Antoons and Diane Boonen
- Language policy and planning: Lexical variation in sign language of the Netherlands / Trude Schermer; Flemish Sign Language, some risks of codification, III / Mieke Van Herreweghe and Myriam Vermeerbergen
- Language in deaf education: The path toward bilingualism, problems and perspectives with regard to the inclusion of sign language in deaf education / Carolina Plaza Pust; Visually oriented language use, discursive and technological resources in Swedish deaf pedagogical arenas / Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta
- Language attitudes: Language census of sign-language users in Spain, attitudes in a changing language community / Victoria Gras i Ferrer; Exploring British experiences of language and deafhood in hypermodernity / Graham H. Turner.
- ISBN:
- 1563683067
- OCLC:
- 56935489
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