Chapter Sign language ideologies: Practices and politics

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Author(s)
Kusters, Annelies
Green, Mara
Moriarty, Erin
Snoddon, Kristin
Contributor(s)
Kusters, Annelies (editor)
Green, Mara (editor)
Moriarty, Erin (editor)
Snoddon, Kristin (editor)
Collection
European Research Council (ERC); EU collectionLanguage
EnglishAbstract
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.

