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Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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The culmination of a seven-year project, this volume provides a
complete description of American Sign Language (ASL) variation. For
four decades, linguists have studied how people from varying
regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the same
thing. 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. Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language stands
alone as the new standard for students and scholars committed to
this discipline.
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