Детальная информация

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.

• Contents
• Introduction – Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
• Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
• Part I: Sign language ideologies: Setting the scene
• Interrogating sign language ideologies in the Saskatchewan deaf community: An autoethnography
• Bla, Bla, Bla: Understanding inaccessibility through Mexican Sign Language expressions
• The ideology of communication practices embedded in an Australian deaf/hearing dance collaboration
• “Goat-Sheep-Mixed-Sign” in Lhasa – Deaf Tibetans’ language ideologies and unimodal codeswitching in Tibetan and Chinese sign languages, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
• Part II: Sign language ideologies in teaching
• The impact of student and teacher ASL ideologies on the use of English in the ASL classroom
• Finding interpreters who can “OPEN-THEIR-MIND”: How Deaf teachers select sign language interpreters in Hà Nội, Việt Nam
• Teaching sign language to parents of deaf children in the name of the CEFR: Exploring tensions between plurilingual ideologies and ASL pedagogical ideologies
• Part III: Sign language and literacy ideologies
• Permissive vs. prohibitive: Deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ perceptions of ASL and English
• An exploration of language ideologies across English literacy and sign languages in multiple modes in Uganda and Ghana
• Feeling what we write, writing what we feel: Written sign language literacy and intersomaticity in a German classroom
• Interplays of pragmatism and language ideologies: Deaf and deafblind people’s literacy practices in gesture-based interactions
• Part IV: Sign language ideologies in language planning and policy
• Bị and being: Spoken language dominant disability-oriented development and Vietnamese deaf self-determination
• 35 years and counting! An ethnographic analysis of sign language ideologies within the Irish Sign Language recognition campaign
• Ideologies and attitudes toward American Sign Language: Processes of academic language and academic cocabulary coinage
• Exploring sign language histories and documentation projects in post-conflict areas
• Part V: Conclusion – Ideology, authority, and power
• Ideology, authority, and power
• Language Index
• Subject Index