Emergence and Evolutions: Introducing Sign Language Sociolinguistics

• Published in: Sign language studies Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 320 - 342
• Main Authors: Kusters, Annelies, Lucas, Ceil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Gallaudet University Press 01.12.2022
• Subjects: American Sign Language; Classroom Communication; Deafness; Foreign Countries; Individualized Instruction; Language Attitudes; Language Classification; Language contact; Language usage; Language Variation; Linguistic Borrowing; Multilingualism; Oppression; Origin of language; Sign Language; Sociolinguistics; Speech Communication; United States > US; Ghana

In a Dialogue section of the "Journal of Sociolinguistics" (vol. 26, no. 1), author pairs introduce a number of themes and debates in sign language sociolinguistics, explore why these are debates; how the debates are situated within sociolinguistics as a whole; and how spoken language soci...