The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages
Author: Maartje De Meulder
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788924029
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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.

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages
Author: Maartje De Meulder
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788924010
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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.

The Status of Sign Languages in Europe

The Status of Sign Languages in Europe
Author: Nina Timmermans
Publisher: Council of Europe
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9287157200
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The present report, based on information provided by member states' governments and by NGOs, gives an overview of the recognition of sign languages in 26 European states. It also summarises policies and programmes which have been developed by member states to ensure sign language users access to their political, social and cultural rights.

Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

Sign Language Ideologies in Practice
Author: Annelies Kusters
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2020-08-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1501510096
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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.

Sign Language in Action

Sign Language in Action
Author: Jemina Napier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137309776
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This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains. The book gives professionals working with sign languages, signed language teachers and students, research students and their supervisors, authoritative access to current ideas and practice.

Keeping Languages Alive

Keeping Languages Alive
Author: Mari C. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107029066
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Explores current efforts to record, collect and archive endangered languages which are in danger of falling silent.

Sign Languages

Sign Languages
Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Total Pages: 70
Release: 2013-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781230623566
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Sign language, American Sign Language, International Sign, British Sign Language, Makaton, Legal recognition of sign languages, Auslan, List of sign languages, Nicaraguan Sign Language, South African Sign Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, Filipino Sign Language, Philippine Federation of the Deaf, Japanese Sign Language, New Zealand Sign Language, Contact sign, Sign language in infants and toddlers, Chinese Sign Language, Tactile signing, Soundpainting, German Sign Language, Kenyan Sign Language, Flemish Sign Language, Plains Indian Sign Language, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Russian Sign Language, French Sign Language family, American Sign Language literature, Irish Sign Language, List of sign languages by number of native signers, Thai Sign Language, Mayan Sign Language, Venezuelan Sign Language, Austrian Sign Language, Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, Mexican Sign Language, Taiwanese Sign Language, Macedonian Sign Language, Brazilian Sign Language, International Center on Deafness and the Arts, Adamorobe Sign Language, Croatian Sign Language, BANZSL, Warlpiri Sign Language, Old French Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language family, Yugoslav Sign Language, Italian Sign Language, Salvadoran Sign Language, Valencian Sign language, Ka'apor Sign Language, Penang Sign Language, Israeli Sign Language, Turkish Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, Icelandic Sign Language, Old Kent Sign Language, Mongolian Sign Language, Northern Ireland Sign Language, Finnish Sign Language, Kata Kolok, Bolivian Sign Language, Mouthing, Hand signaling, Korean Sign Language, Danish Sign Language, Colombian Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language, Initialized sign, Providence Island Sign Language, Sign language media, Malaysian Sign Language, Swedish Sign Language family, Lithuanian Sign Language, Ugandan Sign Language, Maritime Sign...

The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages

The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages
Author: Ceil Lucas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2001-10-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521794749
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This is an accessible introduction to the major areas of sociolinguistics as they relate to sign languages and deaf communities. Clearly organised, it brings together a team of leading experts in sign linguistics to survey the field, and covers a wide range of topics including variation, multilingualism, bilingualism, language attitudes, discourse analysis, language policy and planning. The book examines how sign languages are distributed around the world; what occurs when they come in contact with spoken and written languages; and how signers use them in a variety of situations. Each chapter introduces the key issues in each area of inquiry and provides a comprehensive review of the literature. The book also includes suggestions for further reading and helpful exercises. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages will be welcomed by students in deaf studies, linguistics and interpreter training, as well as spoken language researchers, and researchers and teachers of sign language.