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Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language /

This volume provides a complete description of ASL variation. People from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the same thing. For example, in English some people say "test," while others say "tes'," dropping the final "t." Noted scholars C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lucas, Ceil
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Otros Autores: Valli, Clayton, Bayley, Robert James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2001
Colección:Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Ch. 1. Sociolinguistic variation and sign languages : a framework for research
  • Ch. 2. Collecting and analyzing an ASL corpus
  • Ch. 3. The sociohistorical context for ASL variation
  • Ch. 4. Phonological variation 1 : variation in handshape
  • Ch. 5. Phonological variation 2 : variation in location
  • Ch. 6. Grammatical and social conditioning of phonological variation
  • Ch. 7. Syntactic variation : null pronoun variation in ASL narratives
  • Ch. 8. Lexical variation
  • Ch. 9. Sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language
  • Appendix A. Transcription conventions
  • Appendix B. Sign variants
  • References
  • Index.