To the lexicon and beyond
Subtitle: sociolinguistics in European deaf communities
By: Mieke Van Herreweghe and Myriam Vermeerbergen, editors
Contributors: Herreweghe, Mieke van; Vermeerbergen, Myriam
Series: Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series -- v.10
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Deaf -- Means of communication; Sociolinguistics -- Europe; Sign language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Multilingualism and language contact: The sociolinguastic situation of Finland-Swedish deaf people and their language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language / Karin Hoyer; value: Varition: Reginal variation in Flemish Sign Language / Eline Vanhecke and Kristof De Weerdt; To the lexicon and beyond, the effect of gender on variation in Irish Sign Language / Lorraine Leeson and Carmel Grehan; Hard and hard and hard, the same sign? on the evolution of sifns in Flemish Sign Language / Iris Antoons and Diane Boonen; value: Language policy and planning: Lexical variation in sign language of the Netherlands / Trude Schermer; Flemish Sign Language, some risks of codification, III / Mieke Van Herreweghe and Myriam Vermeerbergen; value: Language in deaf education: The path toward bilingualism, problems and perspectives with regard to the inclusion of sign language in deaf education / Carolina Plaza Pust; Visually oriented language use, discursive and technological resources in Swedish deaf pedagogical arenas / Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta; value: Language attitudes: Language census of sign-language users in Spain, attitudes in a changing language community / Victoria Gras i Ferrer; Exploring British experiences of language and deafhood in hypermodernity / Graham H. Turner