Sign language ideologies in practice / edited by Annelies Kusters, Mara Green, Erin Moriarty and Kristin Snoddon..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kusters, Annelies.

Contributor:

Kusters, Annelies, editor.

Green, Mara, Editor.

Moriarty, Erin, Editor.

Snoddon, Kristin, Editor.

Series:

Sign languages and deaf communities ; Volume 12.

Sign languages and deaf communities ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VII, 355 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston ; Berlin ; Lancaster, England : De Gruyter Mouton : Ishara Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

A. Kusters, Heriot-Watt U; M. Green, Barnard College; E. Moriarty, Gallaudet U & Heriot-Watt U; K. Snoddon, Ryerson U.

Summary:

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics

Interrogating sign language ideologies in the Saskatchewan deaf community: An autoethnography

Bla, Bla, Bla: Understanding inaccessibility through Mexican Sign Language expressions

The ideology of communication practices embedded in an Australian deaf/hearing dance collaboration

“Goat-Sheep-Mixed-Sign” in Lhasa – Deaf Tibetans’ language ideologies and unimodal codeswitching in Tibetan and Chinese sign languages, Tibet Autonomous Region, China

The impact of student and teacher ASL ideologies on the use of English in the ASL classroom

Finding interpreters who can “OPEN-THEIR-MIND”: How Deaf teachers select sign language interpreters in Hà Nội, Việt Nam

Teaching sign language to parents of deaf children in the name of the CEFR: Exploring tensions between plurilingual ideologies and ASL pedagogical ideologies

Permissive vs. prohibitive: Deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ perceptions of ASL and English

An exploration of language ideologies across English literacy and sign languages in multiple modes in Uganda and Ghana

Feeling what we write, writing what we feel: Written sign language literacy and intersomaticity in a German classroom

Interplays of pragmatism and language ideologies: Deaf and deafblind people’s literacy practices in gesture-based interactions

Bị and being: Spoken language dominant disability-oriented development and Vietnamese deaf self-determination

35 years and counting! An ethnographic analysis of sign language ideologies within the Irish Sign Language recognition campaign

Ideologies and attitudes toward American Sign Language: Processes of academic language and academic cocabulary coinage

Exploring sign language histories and documentation projects in post-conflict areas

Ideology, authority, and power

Language Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501510021

1501510029

9781501510090

1501510096

OCLC:

1191863755