Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction – Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics
4. Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics 3
5. Part I: Sign language ideologies: Setting the scene
6. Interrogating sign language ideologies in the Saskatchewan deaf community: An autoethnography 25
7. Bla, Bla, Bla: Understanding inaccessibility through Mexican Sign Language expressions 43
8. The ideology of communication practices embedded in an Australian deaf/hearing dance collaboration 59
9. “Goat-Sheep-Mixed-Sign” in Lhasa – Deaf Tibetans’ language ideologies and unimodal codeswitching in Tibetan and Chinese sign languages, Tibet Autonomous Region, China 83
10. Part II: Sign language ideologies in teaching
11. The impact of student and teacher ASL ideologies on the use of English in the ASL classroom 111
12. Finding interpreters who can “OPEN-THEIR-MIND”: How Deaf teachers select sign language interpreters in Hà Nội, Việt Nam 129
13. Teaching sign language to parents of deaf children in the name of the CEFR: Exploring tensions between plurilingual ideologies and ASL pedagogical ideologies 145
14. Part III: Sign language and literacy ideologies
15. Permissive vs. prohibitive: Deaf and hard-of-hearing students’ perceptions of ASL and English 167
16. An exploration of language ideologies across English literacy and sign languages in multiple modes in Uganda and Ghana 185
17. Feeling what we write, writing what we feel: Written sign language literacy and intersomaticity in a German classroom 201
18. Interplays of pragmatism and language ideologies: Deaf and deafblind people’s literacy practices in gesture-based interactions 223
19. Part IV: Sign language ideologies in language planning and policy
20. Bị and being: Spoken language dominant disability-oriented development and Vietnamese deaf self-determination 245
21. 35 years and counting! An ethnographic analysis of sign language ideologies within the Irish Sign Language recognition campaign 265
22. Ideologies and attitudes toward American Sign Language: Processes of academic language and academic cocabulary coinage 287
23. Exploring sign language histories and documentation projects in post-conflict areas 309
24. Part V: Conclusion – Ideology, authority, and power
25. Ideology, authority, and power 333
26. Language Index 353
27. Subject Index 355