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Multilingualism and sign languages : from the Great Plains to Australia

Title
  1. Multilingualism and sign languages : from the Great Plains to Australia / Ceil Lucas, editor.
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  1. Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2006.

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Additional authors
  1. Lucas, Ceil.
Description
  1. ix, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. The sociolinguistics in deaf communities series, 1080-5494 ; v. 12
Uniform title
  1. Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v. 12.
Subject
  1. Multilingualism
  2. Sign language
  3. Deaf > Language
  4. Deaf > Means of communication
  5. Language and languages > Study and teaching
  6. Intercultural communication
  7. Sign Language
  8. Meertaligheid
  9. Gebarentaal
Contents
  1. pt. 1: Multilingualism. A historical linguistic account of sign language among North American Indians / Jeffrey E. Davis -- pt. 2: Language contact. Comparing language contact phenomena between Auslan-English interpreters and deaf Australians: a preliminary study / Jemina Napier -- Capitalizing on simultaneity: features of bimodal bilingualism in hearing Italian native signers / Michele Bishop [and others] -- pt. 3: Variation. Name dropping: location variation in Australian Sign Language / Adam Schembri, Trevor Johnston, and Della Goswell -- pt. 4: Discourse analysis. Establishing and maintaining sight triangles: conversations between deaf parents and hearing toddlers in Puerto Rico / Susan Mather [and others] -- Tortoise, hare, children: evaluation and narrative genre in Québec Sign Language (LSQ) / Marion Blondel, Christopher Miller, and Anne-Marie Parisot -- He and I: the depersonalization of self in an American Sign Language narrative / Bryan K. Eldredge.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.