Overview

This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations involving a signed and a spoken or a written language are covered in detail, i.e. the development of the languages in bilingual deaf children, cross-modal contact phenomena in the productions of child and adult signers, sign bilingual education concepts and practices in diverse social contexts, deaf educational discourse, sign language planning and interpretation. This state-of-the-art collection is enhanced by a final chapter providing a critical appraisal of the major issues emerging from the individual studies in the light of current assumptions in the broader field of contact linguistics. Given the interdependence of research, policy and practice, the insights gathered in the studies presented are not only of scientific interest, but also bear important implications concerning the perception, understanding and promotion of bilingualism in deaf individuals whose language acquisition and use have been ignored for a long time at the socio-political and scientific levels.

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Author:   Carolina Plaza-Pust (J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) ,  Esperanza Morales-López (University of A Coruna)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   38
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9789027241498

ISBN 10:   902724149
Pages:   389
Publication Date:   26 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Contributors; 2. Foreword (by Padden, Carol A.); 3. Acknowledgements; 4. Code-mixing in signs and words in input to and output from children (by Baker, Anne); 5. Does the knowledge of a natural sign language facilitate Deaf children's learning to read and write? Insights from French Sign Language and written French data (by Niederberger, Nathalie); 6. Bilingualism and deafness: Correlations between deaf students' ability to use space in Quebec Sign Language and their reading comprehension in French (by Dubuisson, Colette); 7. Why variation matters: On language contact in the development of L2 written German (by Plaza-Pust, Carolina); 8. Deaf and hearing children: Reading together in preschool (by Ardito, Barbara); 9. Can signed language be planned? Implications for interpretation in Spain (by Gras, Victoria); 10. Language use and awareness of deaf and hearing children in a bilingual setting (by Krausneker, Verena); 11. Sign bilingualism in Spanish deaf education (by Morales-Lopez, Esperanza); 12. Ideologic signs in Deaf education discourse (by Ignacia Massone, Maria); 13. Sign language and oral/written language in Deaf education in China (by Yang, Jun Hui); 14. Sign bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations (by Plaza-Pust, Carolina); 15. Index

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