Date: 15-Oct-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Sign Bilingualism: Plaza-Pust, Morales-López (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Sign Bilingualism
Subtitle: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact
situations
Series Title: Studies in Bilingualism 38
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Carolina Plaza-Pust
Editor: Esperanza Morales-López
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290427 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027290427 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027241498 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027241498 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
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.
Linguistic Field(s):
Language Acquisition
Sociolinguistics
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