Sign Language Ideologies in Practice

This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150151685X
• ISBN13: 9781501516856
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary