Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities: Volume 2

by Ceil Lucas

Book Overview

This collection offers a wide variety of fascinating studies that consider multicultural aspects among deaf people worldwide. Mala Kleinfeld and Noni Warner investigate variation in the use of gay, lesbian, and bisexual signs in the Deaf community; Jan Branson, Don Miller, and I Gede Marsaja, assisted by I Wayan Negara, profile a deaf village in Bali, Indonesia in which hearing people are fluent in both sign and spoken languages. Alejandro Oviedo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563681080
• ISBN13: 9781563681080
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"