Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	2002
Authors:	Ceil Lucas • Robert J. Bayley • Clayton Valli
Dimensions:	230 x 159 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-56368-113-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication
LSN:	1-56368-113-7
Barcode:	9781563681134

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