Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics

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...

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Main Author: Kusters, Annelies (Editor)
Other Authors: Green, Mara (auth, Editor), Moriarty, Erin (auth, Editor), Snoddon, Kristin (auth, Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2020
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (20 p.)
ISBN:9781501510090-001
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Access:Open Access