Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities

Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities
Author: Melanie Metzger
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781563680953

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Is perception reality? Editor Melanie Metzger investigates the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people around the world in Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities. "All sociocultural groups offer possible solutions to the dilemma that a deaf child presents to the larger group," write Claire Ramsey and Jose Antonio Noriega in their essay, "Ninos Milagrizados: Language Attitudes, Deaf Education, and Miracle Cures in Mexico." In this case, Ramsey and Noriega analyze cultural attempts to "unify" deaf children with the rest of the community. Other contributors report similar phenomena in deaf communities in New Zealand, Nicaragua, and Spain, paying particular attention to how society's view of deaf people affects how deaf people view themselves. A second theme pervasive in this collection, akin to the questions of perception and identity, is the impact of bilingualism in deaf communities. Peter C. Hauser offers a study of an American child proficient in both ASL and Cued English while Annica Detthow analyzes "transliteration" between Spoken Swedish and Swedish Sign Language. Like its predecessors, this sixth volume of the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series distinguishes itself by the depth and diversity of its research, making it a welcome addition to any scholar's library.

Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience

Cultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience
Author: Ila Parasnis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1998-08-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521645652

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This edited book presents an detailed analysis of the experience of deaf people as a bilingual-bicultural minority group in America. An overview of mainstream research on bilingualism and biculturalism is followed by specific research and conceptual analyses which examine the impact of cultural and language diversity on the experiences of deaf people. The book ends with poignant personal reflections from deaf community members. The contributors include prominent deaf and hearing experts in bilingualism, ASL and Deaf culture, and deaf education.

Sign Languages in Contact

Sign Languages in Contact
Author: David Quinto-Pozos
Publisher: Sociolinguistics in Deaf Commu
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007
Genre: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN: 9781563683565

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The 13th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series describes various accounts of contact between sign languages worldwide to further understand structural and social factors of this linguistic component.

Bilingualism and Deafness

Bilingualism and Deafness
Author: Carolina Plaza-Pust
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 507
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501504932

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This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type of bilingualism that is neither territorial nor commonly the result of parent-to-child transmission. The evolution of sign bilingualism at the individual level is discussed from a developmental linguistics perspective on the basis of a longitudinal investigation of deaf learners' bilingual acquisition of German sign language (DGS) and German. The case studies included in this volume offer unique insights into bilingual deaf learners’ sign language and written language productions, and the sophisticated nature of the bilingual competence they attain. Commonalities and differences between sign bilingual language development in deaf learners and language development in other language acquisition scenarios are identified on the basis of a dynamic model of change in the evolution of (learner) language, with a focus on the role of language contact in the organisation of multilingual knowledge and the scope of inter- and intra-individual variation in learner grammars. In many respects, as becomes apparent throughout the chapters of this work, sign bilingualism represents not only a challenge but also a resource. Given this cross-disciplinary perspective, the insights on bilingualism and deafness in this volume will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and professionals.

Bilingualism and Bilingual Deaf Education

Bilingualism and Bilingual Deaf Education
Author: Marc Marschark
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014-06-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0199371822

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In Bilingualism and Bilingual Deaf Education, volume editors Marc Marschark, Gladys Tang, and Harry Knoors bring together diverse issues and evidence in two related domains: bilingualism among deaf learners - in sign language and the written/spoken vernacular - and bilingual deaf education. The volume examines each issue with regard to language acquisition, language functioning, social-emotional functioning, and academic outcomes. It considers bilingualism and bilingual deaf education within the contexts of mainstream education of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in regular schools, placement in special schools and programs for the deaf, and co-enrollment programs, which are designed to give deaf students the best of both educational worlds. The volume offers both literature reviews and new findings across disciplines from neuropsychology to child development and from linguistics to cognitive psychology. With a focus on evidence-based practice, contributors consider recent investigations into bilingualism and bilingual programming in different educational contexts and in different countries that may have different models of using spoken and signed languages as well as different cultural expectations. The 18 chapters establish shared understandings of what are meant by "bilingualism," "bilingual education," and "co-enrollment programming," examine their foundations and outcomes, and chart directions for future research in this multidisciplinary area. Chapters are divided into three sections: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Foundations; Education and Bilingual Education; and Co-Enrollment Settings. Chapters in each section pay particular attention to causal and outcome factors related to the acquisition and use of these two languages by deaf learners of different ages. The impact of bilingualism and bilingual deaf education in these domains is considered through quantitative and qualitative investigations, bringing into focus not only common educational, psychological, and linguistic variables, but also expectations and reactions of the stakeholders in bilingual programming: parents, teachers, schools, and the deaf and hearing students themselves.

Hearing, Mother Father Deaf

Hearing, Mother Father Deaf
Author: Michele Bishop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2008
Genre: EDUCATION
ISBN: 9781563684326

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"Hearing, Mother Father Deaf: Hearing People in Deaf Families includes a comprehensive description of the societal influences at work in the lives of deaf people and their hearing children, which serves as a backdrop for the essays. The topics range from bimodal bilingualism in adults to cultural and linguistic behaviors of hearing children from deaf families; sign and spoken language contact phenomena to issues of self-expression, identity, and experience. A blend of data-based research and personal writings, the articles in this sociolinguistic study provide a thorough understanding of the varied experiences of hearing people and their deaf families throughout the world"--Page 4 of cover.

Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education

Critical Perspectives on Plurilingualism in Deaf Education
Author: Kristin Snoddon
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2021-07-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 180041076X

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This book is the first edited international volume focused on critical perspectives on plurilingualism in deaf education, which encompasses education in and out of schools and across the lifespan. The book provides a critical overview and snapshot of the use of sign languages in education for deaf children today and explores contemporary issues in education for deaf children such as bimodal bilingualism, translanguaging, teacher education, sign language interpreting and parent sign language learning. The research presented in this book marks a significant development in understanding deaf children's language use and provides insights into the flexibility and pragmatism of young deaf people and their families’ communicative practices. It incorporates the views of young deaf people and their parents regarding their language use that are rarely visible in the research to date.

Change and Promise

Change and Promise
Author: Lodenir Becker Karnopp
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016
Genre: Deaf
ISBN: 9781563686757

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English in International Deaf Communication

English in International Deaf Communication
Author: Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9783039116102

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Outside English-speaking countries deaf people come into contact with the English language in specific domains; indirectly through interpretation and translation or directly by learning it as a foreign language. This volume explores a range of intercultural/interlinguistic encounters with English.

Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts

Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts
Author: Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2004
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853596469

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This volume highlights the role of language ideologies in the process of negotiation of identities and shows that in different historical and social contexts different identities may be negotiable or non-negotiable.