English in International Deaf Communication
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Beschreibung
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.
Autor*in
Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli
Themen in »English in International Deaf Communication«
Language and foreign language teaching Language and second language acquisition Gebärdensprache Englisch Aufsatzsammlung Translating and Interpreting Teaching the Handicapped Film and Television Studies