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Sign Multilingualism

  • Edited by: Ulrike Zeshan and Jenny Webster
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2020
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Sign Language Typology [SLT]

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This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus the volume is highly innovative and presents data and analyses not previously available.

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Ulrike Zeshan, Jenny Webster, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

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Frontmatter

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Contents

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About this book

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Part I
Forces shaping sign multilingualism

Evangelia Adamou, Onno Crasborn, Jenny Webster and Ulrike Zeshan
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Repair in cross-signing: Trouble sources, repair strategies and communicative success

Kang-Suk Byun, Connie de Vos, Ulrike Zeshan and Stephen Levinson
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Two languages at hand – Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers

Ulrike Zeshan and Sibaji Panda
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Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation

Tashi Bradford, Susanne Michaelis and Ulrike Zeshan
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A minimalist perspective on code blending in TİD – Turkish bimodal bilingualism

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Blending languages: Bimodal bilinguals and language synthesis

Ronice Müller de Quadros, Diane Lillo-Martin and Deborah Chen Pichler
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Methodological innovations in sign multilingualism research

Jenny Webster, Kang-Suk Byun, Sibaji Panda and Tashi Bradford
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Part II
Burundi Sign Language-Indian Sign Language bilinguals’ community of practice

Sibaji Panda
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A community profile of “sign-speakers” at the Indore Deaf Bilingual Academy

Sibaji Panda
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Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in the UK

Tashi Bradford
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Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in India

Tashi Bradford
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Community profile of an international group of sign language users: Linguistic and social aspects

Kang-Suk Byun
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Language Index

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Subject Index

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 18, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781501503528
Hardcover published on:
November 18, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9781501511585
Paperback published on:
September 20, 2021
Paperback ISBN:
9781501524943
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
9
Main content:
296
Illustrations:
65
Tables:
39
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503528
eBook ISBN: 9781501503528
Hardcover ISBN: 9781501511585
Paperback ISBN: 9781501524943
Keywords for this book
Sign Language; Multilingualism
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists and Sign Language Researchers
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