Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities
Discourse in Signed Languages
1st Edition
In this volume, editor Cynthia B. Roy presents a stellar cast of cognitive linguists, sociolinguists, and discourse analysts to discover and demonstrate how sign language users make sense of what is going ...
Language Policy and Planning for Sign Languages
1st Edition
This volume addresses the burgeoning need for language policy and language planning for the sign languages used by deaf people. Author Timothy Reagan writes for two audiences in his new book, those who ...
Extraordinary from the Ordinary
Personal Experience Narratives in American Sign Language
1st Edition
Personal narratives are one way people code their experiences and convey them to others. Given that speakers can simultaneously express information and define a social situation, analyzing how and why ...
Language and the Law in Deaf Communities
The ninth volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series focuses on forensic linguistics, a field created by noted linguist Roger Shuy, who begins the collection with an introduction of the ...
HEARING, MOTHER-FATHER DEAF
Hearing People in Deaf Families
The 14th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series
The newest entry in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series explores the richness and complexity of the lives of hearing people ...
Sign Languages in Contact
First Edition
The 13th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series
This volume collects for the first time various accounts of contact between sign languages throughout the world, presenting an exciting ...
Multilingualism and Sign Languages
From the Great Plains to Australia
First Edition
The 12th Volume in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series
The latest entry in the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series continues to mine the rich resources found in signing communities ...
The Rising of Lotus Flowers
Self-Education by Deaf Children in Thai Boarding Schools
First Edition
In developed nations around the world, residential schools for deaf students are giving way to the trend of inclusion in regular classrooms. Nonetheless, deaf education continues to lag as the students ...
To the Lexicon and Beyond
Sociolinguistics in European Deaf Communities
First Edition
Volume 10 of the series explores sociolinguistics in various European Deaf communities. Editors Van Herreweghe and Vermeerbergen present a wide array of research inspired by the Sociolinguistics Symposium ...
