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| Author | : Rachel McKee |
| Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2015-06-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1927277302 |
One of the country’s three official languages, New Zealand Sign Language evolved in the communities that grew from networks of Deaf children at three schools for the Deaf from the late nineteenth century. The Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (1997) – now an invaluable online resource at nzsl.vuw.ac.nz – and the Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language (BWB, 2003) were landmarks in documenting the language. A formidable body of scholarly research lies in these volumes, driven by the Deaf Studies Research Unit at Victoria University, led first by Graeme Kennedy and later by David and Rachel McKee. Today, NZSL forms part of the curriculum in intermediate schools, and New Zealanders are increasingly familiar with the language. Drawing on her experience of both teaching and researching NZSL, Rachel McKee has developed A Reference Grammar to support all those who are learning NZSL – students, families and friends of Deaf people, school teachers, public officials. This clear account of language structure and use is illustrated with dozens of videos, drawings and photographs.
| Author | : Maartje De Meulder |
| Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
| Total Pages | : 421 |
| Release | : 2019-06-17 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1788924029 |
This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It comprises 18 studies from communities across Europe, the US, South America, Asia and New Zealand. They set sign language legislation within the national context of language policies in each country and show patterns of intersection between language ideologies, public policy and deaf communities’ discourses. The chapters are grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislative campaigns. Each one describes a deaf community’s expectations and hopes for legal recognition and the type of sign language legislation achieved. The chapters also discuss the strategies used in achieving the passage of the legislation, as well as an account of barriers confronted and surmounted (or not) in the legislative process. The book will be of interest to language activists in the fields of sign language and other minority languages, policymakers and researchers in deaf studies, sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, human rights law and applied linguistics.
| Author | : Diane Brentari |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 715 |
| Release | : 2010-05-27 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1139487396 |
What are the unique characteristics of sign languages that make them so fascinating? What have recent researchers discovered about them, and what do these findings tell us about human language more generally? This thematic and geographic overview examines more than forty sign languages from around the world. It begins by investigating how sign languages have survived and been transmitted for generations, and then goes on to analyse the common characteristics shared by most sign languages: for example, how the use of the visual system affects grammatical structures. The final section describes the phenomena of language variation and change. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the book explores sign languages both old and young, from British, Italian, Asian and American to Israeli, Al-Sayyid Bedouin, African and Nicaraguan. Written in a clear, readable style, it is the essential reference for students and scholars working in sign language studies and deaf studies.
| Author | : Allan Bell |
| Publisher | : Victoria University Press |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780864734907 |
| Author | : Roselynn Smelt |
| Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2018-04-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1502636298 |
New Zealand has captured the imagination of foreign travelers and citizens for centuries. Some of the world's most beautiful landscapes are found within this island nation. New Zealand society honors indigenous peoples, the environment, and its culture. In this exciting book, engaging facts, informative sidebars, and vibrant photographs tell the story of modern New Zealand, including its culture, landscape, history, and people.
| Author | : Eleni Orfanidou |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2015-03-16 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1118271424 |
Research Methods in Sign Language Studies is a landmark work on sign language research, which spans the fields of linguistics, experimental and developmental psychology, brain research, and language assessment. Examines a broad range of topics, including ethical and political issues, key methodologies, and the collection of linguistic, cognitive, neuroscientific, and neuropsychological data Provides tips and recommendations to improve research quality at all levels and encourages readers to approach the field from the perspective of diversity rather than disability Incorporates research on sign languages from Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa Brings together top researchers on the subject from around the world, including many who are themselves deaf
| Author | : Robert Bayley |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 913 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0190233745 |
This major new survey of sociolinguistics identifies gaps in our existing knowledge base and provides directions for future research.
| Author | : Carol Erting |
| Publisher | : Gallaudet University Press |
| Total Pages | : 972 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9781563680267 |
Selected papers from the conference held in Washington DC, July 9-14, 1989.
| Author | : William Edward Moneyhun |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2020-01-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476638349 |
Today's New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations. Although the nation's Maori (indigenous Polynesian) and Pakeha (colonial European) populations of the 19th century were dramatically different and often at odds, they are today co-contributors to a vibrant society. For more than a century they have been working out the kind of nation that engenders respect and well-being; and their interaction, though often riddled with confrontation, is finally bearing bicultural fruit. By their model, the encounter of diverse cultures does not require the surrender of one to the other; rather, it entails each expanding its own cultural categories in the light of the other. The time is ripe to explore modern New Zealand's cultural dynamics for what we can learn about getting along. The present anthropological work focuses on religion and related symbols, forms of reciprocity, the operation of power and the concept of culture in modern New Zealand society.
| Author | : Rachel Locker McKee |
| Publisher | : Bridget Williams Books |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 187724208X |
Deaf people in New Zealand are often little known outside their own culture. People of the Eye brings their world to life in personal histories translated into English with a series of photographs of the deaf community. The storytellers are both old and young, and they reflect both the diversity and commonality of deaf experience; the painful lives of a generation brought up forbidden to use sign language contrasted with the confidence of young people using New Zealand Sign Language as they attend school and assert "deaf pride." The differences between children growing up in deaf families and those who struggle with identity as deaf children in hearing families are illuminating. These are stories of joy and sadness, confusion and resolution, and regret and optimism.
