Sign multilingualism / Jenny Webster, Ulrike Zeshan.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Webster, Jenny, Editor.
• Zeshan, Ulrike, Editor.

Series:

• Sign language typology series ; 7.
• Sign Language Typology [SLT] ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Sign language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus the volume is highly innovative and presents data and analyses not previously available.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• About this book
• Forces shaping sign multilingualism
• Repair in cross-signing: Trouble sources, repair strategies and communicative success
• Two languages at hand - Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers
• Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation
• A minimalist perspective on code blending in TİD - Turkish bimodal bilingualism
• Blending languages: Bimodal bilinguals and language synthesis
• Methodological innovations in sign multilingualism research
• Burundi Sign Language-Indian Sign Language bilinguals' community of practice
• A community profile of "sign-speakers" at the Indore Deaf Bilingual Academy
• Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in the UK
• Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in India
• Community profile of an international group of sign language users: Linguistic and social aspects
• Language Index
• Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

• 9781501503382
• 1501503383
• 9781501503528
• 1501503529

OCLC:

1129148158