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Sociolinguistic variation in American sign language / Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley and Clayton Valli ; in collaboration with Mary Rose ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucas, Ceil.
- Series:
- Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v. 7.
- Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v. 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American Sign Language--Social aspects.
- American Sign Language.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume provides a complete description of ASL variation. People from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the same thing. For example, in English some people say "test," while others say "tes'," dropping the final "t." Noted scholars Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli led a team of exceptional researchers in applying techniques for analyzing spoken language variation to ASL. Their observations at the phonological, lexical, morphological, and syntactic levels demonstrate that ASL variation correlates with many of the same driving social factors of spoken languages, including age, socioeconomic class, gender, ethnic background, region, and sexual orientation. Internal constraints that mandate variant choices for spoken languages have been compared to ASL as well, with intriguing results.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. Sociolinguistic variation and sign languages : a framework for research
- Ch. 2. Collecting and analyzing an ASL corpus
- Ch. 3. The sociohistorical context for ASL variation
- Ch. 4. Phonological variation 1 : variation in handshape
- Ch. 5. Phonological variation 2 : variation in location
- Ch. 6. Grammatical and social conditioning of phonological variation
- Ch. 7. Syntactic variation : null pronoun variation in ASL narratives
- Ch. 8. Lexical variation
- Ch. 9. Sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language
- Appendix A. Transcription conventions
- Appendix B. Sign variants
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781563681776
- 1563681773
- OCLC:
- 70741939
- Publisher Number:
- heb40114 hdl
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