Title: Sign bilingualism : language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations /
Authors: Plaza Pust, Carolina.; Morales López, Esperanza
Publisher: John Benjamins,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Sign language.; Bilingualism.; Language acquisition.; Deaf Means of communication; Languages in contact.
Abstract: "This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations involving a signed and a spoken or a written language are covered in detail, i.e. the development of the languages in bilingual deaf children, cross-modal contact phenomena in the productions of child and adult signers, sign bilingual education concepts and practices in diverse social contexts, deaf educational discourse, sign language planning and interpretation. This state-of-the-art collection is enhanced by a final chapter providing a critical appraisal of the major issues emerging from the individual studies in the light of current assumptions in the broader field of contact linguistics. Given the interdependence of research, policy and practice, the insights gathered in the studies presented are not only of scientific interest, but also bear important implications concerning the perception, understanding and promotion of bilingualism in deaf individuals whose language acquisition and use have been ignored for a long time at the socio-political and scientific levels."--Jacket.
Contents: Code-mixing in signs and words in input to and output from children / Anne Baker and Beppie Van den Bogaerde -- Does the knowledge of a natural sign language facilitate deaf children's learning to read and write? / Nathalie Niederberger -- Bilingualism and deafness / Colette Dubuisson, Anne-Marie Parisot and Astrid Vercaingne-Menard -- Why variation matters / Carolina Plaza-Pust -- Deaf and hearing children / Barbara Ardito [and others] -- Can signed language be planned? / Victoria Gras -- Language use and awareness of deaf and hearing children in a bilingual setting / Verena Krausneker -- Sign bilingualism in spanish deaf education / Esperanza Morales-Lopez -- Ideological signs in deaf education discourse / Maria Ignacia Massone -- Sign language and oral/written language in deaf education in China / Jun Hui Yang -- Sign bilingualism / Carolina Plaza Pust and Esperanza Morales-Lopez.