[PDF] Lexical Borrowing In American Sign Language eBook

Author : Clayton Valli
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781563680977

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New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4.

Author : Diane Brentari
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 113567034X

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This volume explores the grammatical and social contexts for borrowing from various spoken languages into their corresponding sign languages (e.g., from English into ASL). For graduate and professional-level (psycho)linguists and deaf studies specialists

Author : Ceil Lucas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004653333

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Started in 1986 as a project to simply describe the linguistic and sociolinguistic features of contact signing and to determine if this type of signing is aptly labeled a pidgin, this book blossomed in depth as the authors' data increased. The initial narrow goals of the book expanded and now project a much larger picture of language contact in the American deaf community."We were forced...to consider issues somewhat broader than those addressed by the (initial) project," writes Lucas in the preface. The result is a superbly-researched text, documenting the tireless efforts of Lucas and Valli over the last six years. Included in the book is a model of linguistic outcomes of language contact in the deaf community, the patterns of language use which emerged from the data, and the implications of the findings on deaf education, second language teaching, and interpreting.This book describes language contact in the deaf community within the larger context of studies of language contact. It reviews current issues and research on language contact. It re-examines claims that the outcome of language contact in the deaf community is a pidgin. It demonstrates what is unique about language contact in the deaf community based on analysis of videotaped data. It discusses the educational and teaching implications of findings with regard to language contact in the deaf community.

Author : Jim G. Kyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1988-02-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521357173

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The discovery of the importance of sign language in the deaf community is very recent indeed. This book provides a study of the communication and culture of deaf people, and particularly of the deaf community in Britain. The authors' principal aim is to inform educators, psychologists, linguists and professionals working with deaf people about the rich language the deaf have developed for themselves - a language of movement and space, of the hands and of the eyes, of abstract communication as well as iconic story telling. The first chapters of the book discuss the history of sign language use, its social aspects and the issues surrounding the language acquisition of deaf children (BSL) follows, and the authors also consider how the signs come into existence, change over time and alter their meanings, and how BSL compares and contrasts with spoken languages and other signed languages. Subsequent chapters examine sign language learning from a psychological perspective and other cognitive issues. The book concludes with a consideration of the applications of sign language research, particularly in the contentious field of education. There is still much to be discovered about sign language and the deaf community, but the authors have succeeded in providing an extensive framework on which other researchers can build, from which professionals can develop a coherent practice for their work with deaf people, and from which hearing parents of deaf children can draw the confidence to understand their children's world.