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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Ahereza, Noah,; Bosco Conama, John,; Calton, Cindee,; Cooper, Audrey C.,; Gillen, Julia,; Green, Mara,; Hodge, Gabrielle,; Hofer, Theresia,; Hoffmann-Dilloway, Erika,; Kurz, Christopher A.N.,; Kusters, Annelies,; Marie, Aron S.,; Moriarty, Erin,; Murray, Joseph J.,; Nyarko, Marco,; Pfister, Anne E.,; Reis, Jeanne E.,; Snoddon, Kristin,; Spiecker, Barbara,; Spooner, Ruth Anna,; Weber, Joanne,
• HerausgeberIn: Green, Mara,; Kusters, Annelies,; Moriarty, Erin,; Snoddon, Kristin,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] , 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VII, 355 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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