English in International Deaf Communication
©2008
Conference proceedings
454 Pages
Series:
Linguistic Insights, Volume 72
Summary
Signed languages are forms of human communication based on visual/gestural perception as opposed to aural/oral. Those profoundly deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, who learn to sign from an early age, live in a bilingual/bicultural environment composed of deaf and hearing realities and hence learn both the signed and non-signed varieties of languages existing in their societies. Outside English-speaking countries, in an increasingly globalized world, deaf people come into contact with the English language in specific domains; indirectly through interpretation and translation or directly by learning it as a foreign language. The reception/production of verbal, visual, multimodal texts in English facilitates international communication and integration among the deaf and between deaf and hearing people. The volume aims to explore a range of intercultural/interlinguistic encounters with English, in a variety of international signed and non-signed combinations.
Details
- Pages
- 454
- Publication Year
- 2008
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783039116102
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Language and foreign language teaching Language and second language acquisition Gebärdensprache Englisch Aufsatzsammlung Translating and Interpreting Teaching the Handicapped Film and Television Studies
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. 454 pp., 27 ill.
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