Sign Language Ideologies in Practice / / ed. by Annelies Kusters, Mara Green, Erin Moriarty, Kristin Snoddon.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] , 12
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 355 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction – Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics --
Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics --
Part I: Sign language ideologies: Setting the scene --
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 --
Part II: Sign language ideologies in teaching --
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 --
Part III: Sign language and literacy 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 --
Part IV: Sign language ideologies in language planning and policy --
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 --
Part V: Conclusion – Ideology, authority, and power --
Ideology, authority, and power --
Language Index --
Subject Index
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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501510090
9783110696288
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9783110704716
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ISSN:2192-516X ;
DOI:10.1515/9781501510090
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Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Annelies Kusters, Mara Green, Erin Moriarty, Kristin Snoddon.