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Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language.

Lucas, Ceil.

Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (255 pages) - Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series ; v.7 . - Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities Series .

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Sociolinguistic Variation and Sign Languages: A Framework for Research -- Collecting and Analyzing an ASL Corpus -- The Sociohistorical Context for ASL Variation -- Phonological Variation 1: Variation in Handshape -- Phonological Variation 2: Variation in Location -- Grammatical and Social Conditioning of Phonological Variation -- Syntactic Variation: Null Pronoun Variation in ASL Narratives -- Lexical Variation -- Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language -- Appendix A: Transcription Conventions -- Appendix B: Sign Variants -- References -- Index.

9781563681776


American Sign Language-Social aspects.
Sociolinguistics.


Electronic books.

HV2474.L83 2001

419.707

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