 Subjects -> DISABILITY (Total: 100 journals)
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- Editor's Note
- Abstract: I am very happy to welcome this special issue on heritage signers. I am hoping that having these five papers between two covers will provide a very useful resource for researchers, students, and general readers. I am very grateful to Dr. Deborah Chen Pichler, the guest editor, for her hard work on this ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
- A Short Introduction to Heritage Signers
- Abstract: This special issue of Sign Language Studies is the result of a panel on heritage signers hosted by the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University in the spring of 2016. Heritage bilingualism is a special form of bilingualism that involves a minority home language and a majority language of the greater community. Heritage bilinguals typically begin life immersed in their home language and are considered native speakers, but they quickly become dominant in the majority language. The minority status of their home language, combined with limited exposure to it outside the home, and schooling in the majority language lead to developmental patterns that differ quite strikingly from those of comparison ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Young Bimodal Bilingual Development of Referent Tracking in Signed
Narratives: Further Justification of Heritage Signer Status- Abstract: bilinguals appears to resemble code switching, signaling both a shift in language dominance and an emergent literacy in their spoken language. The results suggest that early bimodal bilinguals are more similar to heritage speakers than to their Deaf-signing peers, providing further justification for reserving heritage signer status for Deaf-parented bimodal bilinguals who can hear.Early bimodal bilinguals are first language acquirers of a sign language and a spoken language, individuals who are born into Deaf-parented signing families, and who possess the ability to hear. Due to the vertical transmission of a sign language from parent to child, both Deaf and hearing native signers are considered as heritage signers ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Bimodal Bilingual Heritage Signers: A Balancing Act of Languages and
Modalities- Abstract: The term heritage language speaker refers to a person born into a family whose language imparts cultural experiences that differ from those of the surrounding community. These individuals are exposed to the heritage language before (or at the same time as) their contact with the community language (Benmamoun, Montrul, and Polinsky 2013; Polinsky 2015). Thus, they have two different cultural and linguistic experiences. Since heritage speakers/signers grow up with both a heritage language and the language of the general community, they may be considered bilinguals with two (or more) native languages. However, although heavily exposed to their heritage language in childhood, in many cases these speakers do not attain ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
- The Case for Heritage ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
- Abstract: This article puts forward a solution to the impending shortage of culturally and linguistically competent interpreters: the education of heritage signers as heritage language learners. It examines the current landscape of ASL as a course of study and the difficulties heritage signers report when they begin learning ASL. However, if we consider heritage signers as heritage language learners, borrowing research from heritage learners of Spanish (Valdés 2001), ASL instructors would be able to consider the factors known to contribute to heritage language competence and make use of them in their teaching. In examining two of the five pedagogically relevant factors known to correlate with heritage language competence ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Sign Languages in the Context of Heritage Language: A New Direction in
Language Research- Abstract: A heritage language is a minority language used in a specific sociocultural context, one in which a different language is dominant in the community. Heritage speakers have typically been defined as second-generation immigrants who live in a bilingual environment (Benmamoun, Montrul, and Polinsky 2013, 132), and the heritage language is the language the children are first exposed to at home. Later they become dominant in the language of the broader society in which they live (see also Rothman 2009 and Montrul 2016 for similar definitions, as well as Kupisch and Rothman 2016 on heritage speakers as a subtype of native speakers).Typically, the heritage (home) language is the weaker component of the bilingual dyad ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
- The Historical and Social Context of the Philadelphia ASL Community
- Abstract: Research on sign languages has long documented wide spread variability in phonology, morphosyntax, and discourse. Appendix D of the Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles (Stokoe, Casterline, and Croneberg 1965) acknowledges that American Sign Language (ASL) exhibits both regional dialects and socially structured variability within dialects. This claim has since been robustly supported by a proliferation of empirical work on sign language sociolinguistics. ASL exhibits variation along social lines such as race (Woodward and De Santis 1977; Aramburo 1989; Lucas, Bayley, Reed, and Wulf 2001; McCaskill, Bayley, Lucas, and Hill 2011, inter alia), gender (Lucas, Bayley, Valli, Rose, and Wulf 2001; ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
- Citizenship, Politics, Difference: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Signed
Language Communities ed. by Audrey C. Cooper and Khadijat K. Rashid
(review)- Abstract: This volume is a collection of diverse contributions on several issues concerning Deaf communities living in sub-Saharan African nations. It comes out of a two-day conference titled "African Lessons on Language and Citizenship: Local Action and Transnational Partnerships," which was held at Gallaudet University in April 2012. This conference was mainly coordinated by the two editors of this volume. The editors were inspired by the positive feedback they received from people asking when they would publish the proceedings and also by those wondering if there would be a "second African languages conference" in the future (xiv). Three years later, the editors took a step to compile this volume, the first of its kind ... Read More
Keywords: Heritage language speakers; Children of deaf parents; Bilingualism in children; Code switching (Linguistics); Code switching (Linguistics); American Sign Language; Sign language; Deaf; Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
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