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Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language

Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language

by Robert J. BayleyClayton Valli and Ceil Lucas
Hardback
Publication Date: 08/08/2001

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The culmination of a seven-year project, this volume provides a complete description of American Sign Language (ASL) variation. For four decades, linguists have studied how people from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the same thing. Noted scholars Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli led a team of exceptional researchers in applying techniques for analyzing spoken language variation to ASL. Their observations at the phonological, lexical, morphological, and syntactic levels demonstrate that ASL variation correlates with many of the same driving social factors of spoken languages, including age, socioeconomic class, gender, ethnic background, region, and sexual orientation. Internal constraints that mandate variant choices for spoken languages have been compared to ASL as well, with intriguing results. Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language stands alone as the new standard for students and scholars committed to this discipline.
ISBN:
9781563681134
9781563681134
Category:
Sign languages
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
08-08-2001
Publisher:
Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
230x159x22mm
Weight:
0.59kg

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