30.2503, Books: The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: De Meulder, Murray, McKee (eds.)

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Subject: 30.2503, Books: The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: De Meulder, Murray, McKee (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:35:09
From: Elinor Robertson [Elinor at Multilingual-Matters.com]
Subject: The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: De Meulder, Murray, McKee (eds.)

 


Title: The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages 
Subtitle: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788923996 


Editor: Maartje De Meulder
Editor: Joseph J. Murray
Editor: Rachel L. McKee

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788924009 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 149.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788924009 Pages: 352 Price: U.K. £ 109.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788923996 Pages: 352 Price: U.S. $ 49.95
Paperback: ISBN:  9781788923996 Pages: 352 Price: U.K. £ 34.95


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Sign Language


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=136313




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