Sign Language Ideologies in Practice
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A. Kusters, Heriot-Watt U; M. Green, Barnard College; E. Moriarty, Gallaudet U & Heriot-Watt U; K. Snoddon, Ryerson U.
Sign Language Ideologies in Practice
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.
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.
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Biographical note
A. Kusters, Heriot-Watt U; M. Green, Barnard College; E. Moriarty, Gallaudet U & Heriot-Watt U; K. Snoddon, Ryerson U.