Sign Languages And Linguistic Citizenship
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| Author | : Ellen Foote |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2020-12-30 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 100029871X |
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This critical ethnographic account of the Yangon deaf community in Myanmar offers unique insights into the dynamics of a vibrant linguistic and cultural minority community in the region and also sheds further light on broader questions around language policy. The book examines language policies on different scales, demonstrating how unofficial policies in the local deaf school and wider Yangon deaf community impact responses to higher level interventions, namely the 2007 government policy aimed at unifying the country’s two sign languages. Foote highlights the need for a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of language policy, unpacking the interplay between language ideologies, power relations, political and moral interests and community conceptualisations of citizenship. The study’s findings are situated within wider theoretical debates within linguistic anthropology, questioning existing paradigms on the notion of linguistic authenticity and contributing to ongoing debates on the relationship between language policy and social justice. Offering an important new contribution to critical work on language policy, the book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and language education.
| Author | : Ellen Foote |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2020-12-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1000298752 |
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This critical ethnographic account of the Yangon deaf community in Myanmar offers unique insights into the dynamics of a vibrant linguistic and cultural minority community in the region and also sheds further light on broader questions around language policy. The book examines language policies on different scales, demonstrating how unofficial policies in the local deaf school and wider Yangon deaf community impact responses to higher level interventions, namely the 2007 government policy aimed at unifying the country’s two sign languages. Foote highlights the need for a critical and interdisciplinary approach to the study of language policy, unpacking the interplay between language ideologies, power relations, political and moral interests and community conceptualisations of citizenship. The study’s findings are situated within wider theoretical debates within linguistic anthropology, questioning existing paradigms on the notion of linguistic authenticity and contributing to ongoing debates on the relationship between language policy and social justice. Offering an important new contribution to critical work on language policy, the book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and language education.
| Author | : Quentin Williams |
| Publisher | : Channel View Publications |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2022-07-08 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1800415338 |
Download Struggles for Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies. The authors take stock of conservative, liberal, progressive and radical social transformations in democracies in the north and south, and consider the implications for multilingualism as a resource, as a way of life and as a feature of identity politics. Each chapter builds on earlier research on linguistic citizenship by illuminating how multilingualism (in both theory and practice) should be, or could be, thought of as inclusive when we recognize what multilingual speakers do with language for voice and agency.
| Author | : Joseph C. Hill |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2019-01-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0429665148 |
Download Sign Languages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book: offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic grammatical components of phonology, morphology, and syntax with examples and illustrations; demonstrates how sign languages are acquired by Deaf children with varying degrees of input during early development, including no input where children create a language of their own; discusses the contexts of sign languages, including how different varieties are formed and used, attitudes towards sign languages, and how language planning affects language use; is accompanied by e-resources, which host links to video clips. Offering an engaging and accessible introduction to sign languages, this book is essential reading for students studying this topic for the first time with little or no background in linguistics.
| Author | : Lisa Lim |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2018-02-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1783099674 |
Download The Multilingual Citizen Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this ground-breaking collection of essays, the editors and authors develop the idea of Linguistic Citizenship. This notion highlights the importance of practices whereby vulnerable speakers themselves exercise control over their languages, and draws attention to the ways in which alternative voices can be inserted into processes and structures that otherwise alienate those they were designed to support. The chapters discuss issues of decoloniality and multilingualism in the global South, and together retheorize how to accommodate diversity in complexly multilingual/ multicultural societies. Offering a framework anchored in transformative notions of democratic and reflexive citizenship, it prompts readers to critically rethink how existing contemporary frameworks such as Linguistic Human Rights rest on disempowering forms of multilingualism that channel discourses of diversity into specific predetermined cultural and linguistic identities.
| Author | : Annelies Kusters |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 362 |
| Release | : 2020-08-10 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1501510096 |
Download Sign Language Ideologies in Practice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
| Author | : Clayton Valli |
| Publisher | : Gallaudet University Press |
| Total Pages | : 516 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781563680977 |
Download Linguistics of American Sign Language Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4.
| Author | : Ceil Lucas |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2001-10-04 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521794749 |
Download The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is an accessible introduction to the major areas of sociolinguistics as they relate to sign languages and deaf communities. Clearly organised, it brings together a team of leading experts in sign linguistics to survey the field, and covers a wide range of topics including variation, multilingualism, bilingualism, language attitudes, discourse analysis, language policy and planning. The book examines how sign languages are distributed around the world; what occurs when they come in contact with spoken and written languages; and how signers use them in a variety of situations. Each chapter introduces the key issues in each area of inquiry and provides a comprehensive review of the literature. The book also includes suggestions for further reading and helpful exercises. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages will be welcomed by students in deaf studies, linguistics and interpreter training, as well as spoken language researchers, and researchers and teachers of sign language.
| Author | : Edward S. Klima |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780674807969 |
Download The Signs of Language Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In a book with far-reaching implications, Edward S. Klima and Ursula Bellugi present a full exploration of a language in another mode--a language of the hands and of the eyes. They discuss the origin and development of American Sign Language, the internal structure of its basic units, the grammatical processes it employs, and its heightened use in poetry and wit. The authors draw on research, much of it by and with deaf people, to answer the crucial question of what is fundamental to language as language and what is determined by the mode (vocal or gestural) in which a language is produced.
| Author | : Julie Bakken Jepsen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 1018 |
| Release | : 2015-10-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1614518173 |
Download Sign Languages of the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.
