Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language - Ceil Lucas - Books - Gallaudet University Press,U.S. - 9781563681134 - August 8, 2001
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Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language 1st edition

Ceil Lucas

Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language 1st 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.


192 pages, Illustrations, map; Illustrations, map

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 8, 2001
ISBN13 9781563681134
Publishers Gallaudet University Press,U.S.
Pages 192
Dimensions 594 g
Language English  

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