Sign multilingualism / / Jenny Webster, Ulrike Zeshan.
This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus the volume is highly innovative and presents...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton,, [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sign language typology series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- About this book
- Forces shaping sign multilingualism
- Repair in cross-signing: Trouble sources, repair strategies and communicative success
- Two languages at hand - Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers
- Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation
- A minimalist perspective on code blending in TİD - Turkish bimodal bilingualism
- Blending languages: Bimodal bilinguals and language synthesis
- Methodological innovations in sign multilingualism research
- Burundi Sign Language-Indian Sign Language bilinguals' community of practice
- A community profile of "sign-speakers" at the Indore Deaf Bilingual Academy
- Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in the UK
- Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in India
- Community profile of an international group of sign language users: Linguistic and social aspects
- Language Index
- Subject Index