Sociolinguistic variation in American sign language / / Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley and Clayton Valli ; in collaboration with Mary Rose ... [et al.]

• Autore: Lucas Ceil
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : Gallaudet University Press, c2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Disciplina: 420.07
• Soggetto topico: American Sign Language - Social aspects; Sociolinguistics
• Altri autori: ValliClayton RoseMary BayleyRobert <1943->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-225) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Sociolinguistic variation and sign languages : a framework for research -- Ch. 2. Collecting and analyzing an ASL corpus -- Ch. 3. The sociohistorical context for ASL variation -- Ch. 4. Phonological variation 1 : variation in handshape -- Ch. 5. Phonological variation 2 : variation in location -- Ch. 6. Grammatical and social conditioning of phonological variation -- Ch. 7. Syntactic variation : null pronoun variation in ASL narratives -- Ch. 8. Lexical variation -- Ch. 9. Sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language -- Appendix A. Transcription conventions -- Appendix B. Sign variants -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume provides a complete description of ASL variation. People from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the same thing. For example, in English some people say "test," while others say "tes'," dropping the final "t." 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sociolinguistic variation in American sign language
• ISBN: 9781563681776; 1563681773
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958326003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ; ; v. 7.