Sign Languages and Linguistic Citizenship

Sign Languages and Linguistic Citizenship

A Critical Ethnographic Study of the Yangon Deaf Community

Foote, Ellen

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2022

172

Mole

Inglês

9780367680046

15 a 20 dias

258

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1. Introduction; 2. Deafness and Sign Language in Myanmar; 3. The Politics of Language in Myanmar; 4. Entering the Deaf Community: Language, Identity and Social Participation; 5. Negotiating Language and Reconstructing Identities: Language Policy at the Mary Chapman School; 6. Community Ideologies of Linguistic Authenticity and Their Political Function: Unofficial Community Language Policy; 7. Diverse Perspectives on Language, Equality and Citizenship; 8. Community Responses to the Myanmar Sign Language Standardisation Project; 9. Final Reflections
Deaf People;Deaf Community;Yangon deaf community;YSL;Two sign languages;Hearing People;Social justice;Language Ideologies;Linguistic Citizenship;Deaf Education;Deaf Participants;Deaf Students;Successive Post-independence Governments;Young Deaf People;Deaf School;Language Policy;Young Man;Critical Ethnographic Study;Linguistic Authenticity;Asl Sign;Military Junta;Standardised Sign;Lexical Borrowing;Early Onset Deafness;Language Policy Processes;Deaf Sign Language Users;Deaf Children;Deaf Identity