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Authors: Ceil Lucas
ISBN-13: 9780521794749, ISBN-10: 0521794749
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Ceil Lucas is Professor of Linguistics at Gallaudet University. She is the co-author (with Clayton Valli) of The Linguistics of ASL, and of Language Contact in the American Deaf Community (also with Clayton Valli), both published in 1992.
An accessible introduction to the major areas of sociolinguistics as they relate to sign languages and deaf communities.
List of figures | ||
List of tables | ||
List of contributors | ||
Foreword | ||
Preface and acknowledgments | ||
List of abbreviations | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Multilingualism: The global approach to sign languages | 8 |
3 | Bilingualism and language contact | 33 |
4 | Sociolinguistic variation | 61 |
5 | Discourse analysis | 112 |
6 | Language planning and policy | 145 |
7 | Language attitudes | 181 |
Bibliography | 217 | |
Index | 249 |