| English in International Deaf Communication Contributor(s): Gotti, Maurizio (Other), Ochse, Elana (Editor), Kellett Bidoli, Cynthia J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 303911610X ISBN-13: 9783039116102 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $147.81 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Sign Language - Social Science - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 419 |
| LCCN: 2008003343 |
| Series: Linguistic Insights |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (1.35 lbs) 454 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |