English in International Deaf Communication Paperback / softback
Edited by Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli, Elana Ochse
Part of the Linguistic Insights series
Paperback / softback
Description
Signed languages are forms of human communication based on visual/gestural perception as opposed to aural/oral.
Those profoundly deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, who learn to sign from an early age, live in a bilingual/bicultural environment composed of deaf and hearing realities and hence learn both the signed and non-signed varieties of languages existing in their societies.
Outside English-speaking countries, in an increasingly globalized world, deaf people come into contact with the English language in specific domains; indirectly through interpretation and translation or directly by learning it as a foreign language.
The reception/production of verbal, visual, multimodal texts in English facilitates international communication and integration among the deaf and between deaf and hearing people.
The volume aims to explore a range of intercultural/interlinguistic encounters with English, in a variety of international signed and non-signed combinations.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:454 pages
- Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang
- Publication Date:17/03/2008
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- ISBN:9783039116102
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:454 pages
- Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang
- Publication Date:17/03/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9783039116102
