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From the Great Plains to Australia Ceil Lucas, Editor View the table of contents. Read an excerpt from part one. Read a review. $60.00s

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The 12th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series

Contents

Editorial Advisory Board, vii
Editor’s Introduction, ix

PART ONE: MULTILINGUALISM

A Historical Linguistic Account of Sign Language among North American Indians, 3
   Jeffrey E. Davis

PART TWO: LANGUAGE CONTACT

Comparing Language Contact Phenomena in Auslan/English Interpreters and Deaf Australians, A Preliminary Study, 39
   Jemina Napier

Capitalizing on Simultaneity: Features of Bimodal Bilingualism in Hearing Italian Native Signers, 79
   Michele Bishop, Sherry Hicks, Antonella Bertone, and Rita Sala

PART THREE: VARIATION

name Dropping: Location Variation in Australian Sign Language, 121
   Adam Schembri, Trevor Johnston, and Della Goswell

PART FOUR: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Establishing and Maintaining Sight Triangles: Conversations between Deaf Parents and Hearing Toddlers in Puerto Rico, 159
   Susan Mather, Yolanda Rodriguez-Fraticelli, Jean F. Andrews, and
   Juanita Rodriguez

tortoise, hare, children: Evaluation and Narrative Genre in Langue des Signes Québécoise (LSQ), 188
   Marion Blondel, Christopher Miller, and Anne-Marie Parisot

He and I: The Depersonalization of Self in an American Sign Language Narrative, 252
   Bryan K. Eldredge

Contributors, 281
Index

Ceil Lucas is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.

ISBN 1-56368-296-6, 978-1-56368-296-4, ISSN 1080-5494, 6 x 9 casebound, 296 pages

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