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Multilingual Matters The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World

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Product Description This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It comprises 18 studies from communities across Europe, the US, South America, Asia and New Zealand. They set sign language legislation within the national context of language policies in each country and show patterns of intersection between language ideologies, public policy and deaf communities' discourses. Each chapter, grounded in scholarship by deaf scholars, describes a deaf community's expectations and hopes for legal recognition and the type of sign language legislation achieved. The chapters also discuss the strategies used in achieving the passage of the legislation, as well as an account of barriers confronted and surmounted (or not) in the legislative process. It will be of interest to language activists in the fields of sign language and other minority languages, policymakers and researchers in deaf studies, sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, human rights law and applied linguistics. Review Only a small number of the thousands of endangered languages are legally recognized or protected, but among them, the nineteen Sign Languages now acknowledged in national legislation reveal a significant advance in twenty-first century language management. This collection of chapters detailing the way this happened is a major contribution to the study of language policy. --Bernard Spolsky, Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Formal recognition campaigns have recently elevated the 140-year battle for Deaf children's rights to access their sign languages, cultures and Deaf educators to new levels of political discourse. The authors of this book have succeeded magnificently in illustrating current progress and highlighting some of the obstacles which remain to be overcome. --Paddy Ladd, author of Understanding Deaf Culture About the Author Maartje De Meulder is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality (NaLTT), University of Namur, Belgium. Her research interests include sign language policy and planning, sign language rights, family language policy, multilingualism and sign language maintenance and revitalisation.Joseph J. Murray is Professor in the Department of ASL and Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, USA. A trained historian, his work explores ways in which deaf people navigate their societies as sign language minorities.Rachel L. McKee is Programme Director of NZSL Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include sign language documentation, sign language policy, sociolinguistic variation in sign language, interpreting, and sign language teaching and learning.

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Brand: Multilingual Matters
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1788924002
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 17 June 2019
Listed Since: 18 December 2018

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