Bilingualism and deafness : on language contact in the bilingual acquisition of sign language and written language / Carolina Plaza-Pust.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plaza Pust, Carolina, author.

Series:

Sign languages and deaf communities ; 7.

Sign languages and deaf communities, 2192-516X ; volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign language acquisition.

Oral communication.

Bilingualism.

Languages in contact.

Deaf children--Language.

Deaf children.

Deaf people--Education.

Deaf people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (522 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Carolina Plaza Pust, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Summary:

This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type of bilingualism that is neither territorial nor commonly the result of parent-to-child transmission. The evolution of sign bilingualism at the individual level is discussed from a developmental linguistics perspective on the basis of a longitudinal investigation of deaf learners' bilingual acquisition of German sign language (DGS) and German. The case studies included in this volume offer unique insights into bilingual deaf learners’ sign language and written language productions, and the sophisticated nature of the bilingual competence they attain. Commonalities and differences between sign bilingual language development in deaf learners and language development in other language acquisition scenarios are identified on the basis of a dynamic model of change in the evolution of (learner) language, with a focus on the role of language contact in the organisation of multilingual knowledge and the scope of inter- and intra-individual variation in learner grammars. In many respects, as becomes apparent throughout the chapters of this work, sign bilingualism represents not only a challenge but also a resource. Given this cross-disciplinary perspective, the insights on bilingualism and deafness in this volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and professionals.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

Notation conventions for sign language examples

List of acronyms for sign languages

1. The path toward sign bilingualism: a cross-disciplinary perspective

2. Sign bilingualism: a developmental linguistics perspective

3. DGS: grammatical sketch and summary of acquisition studies

4. Bilingual deaf learners’ written German profiles

5. Sign bilingualism as a challenge and as a resource

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2017).

ISBN:

1-5015-0493-2

1-5015-0499-1

OCLC:

979970614

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access