UID:
almafu_9961448550302883
Format:
1 online resource (341 pages)
ISBN:
1-78892-401-0
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1-78892-402-9
Content:
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. The chapters are grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislative campaigns. Each one 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. The book 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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Contributors --
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Introduction: The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World --
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1. ‘Ah, That’s Not Necessary, You Can Read English Instead’: An Analysis of State Language Policy Concerning Irish Sign Language and Its Effects --
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2. The Korean Sign Language Act --
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3. The Road to Maltese Sign Language Recognition --
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4. Recognising British Sign Language in Scotland --
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5. A Roof without Foundation: Shifts in the Legal and Practical Status of Turkish Sign Language (TİD) Since 2005 --
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6. Progress and Problems in the Campaign for Sign Language Recognition in Japan --
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7. American Sign Language Legislation in the USA --
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8. Towards the Recognition of Chilean Sign Language --
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9. The Societal and Political Recognition of French Sign Language (LSF) in France: 1970–2018 --
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10. In Pursuit of Legal Recognition of the Sign Language of the Netherlands --
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11. The ‘Language Issue’: The Struggle and Path to the Recognition of LIS --
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12. Sign Language Legislation in Norway --
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13. Austrian Sign Language: Recognition Achieved but Discrimination Continues --
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14. Implementing Recognition of New Zealand Sign Language: 2006–2018 --
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15. The Legal Recognition of Icelandic Sign Language: Meeting Deaf People’s Expectations? --
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16. Recognizing Brazilian Sign Language: Legislation and Outcomes --
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17. Legal Recognition and Regulation of Catalan Sign Language --
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18. A Belgian Compromise? Recognising French-Belgian Sign Language and Flemish Sign Language --
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Epilogue: Claiming Multiple Positionalities: Lessons from the First Two Decades of Sign Language Recognition --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78892-400-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-78892-399-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.21832/9781788924016
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