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Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC], 12) - Hardcover

Book 11 of 14: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]

Kusters, Annelies / Green, Mara / Moriarty Harrelson, Erin / Snoddon, Kristin

 
9781501516856: Sign Language Ideologies in Practice (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC], 12)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

A. Kusters, Heriot-Watt U; M. Green, Barnard College; E. Moriarty, Gallaudet U & Heriot-Watt U; K. Snoddon, Ryerson U.

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