[Slling-l] Question about SL planning and status

Sun Oct 9 11:40:10 UTC 2016

Dear Mantrimas,

when it comes to language planning, in particular standardization, the situation in the Netherlands may be of interest, as there have been efforts to standardize the lexicon of Sign Language of the Netherlands (in the context of an effort to gain official recognition of NGT). See the following sources:

Schermer, Trude. 2003. From variant to standard: An overview of the standardization process of the lexicon of Sign Language of the Netherlands over two decades. Sign Language Studies 3(4), 469-486.
Schermer, Trude. 2012. Language planning. In Pfau, R., M. Steinbach & B. Woll (eds.), Sign language. An international handbook (HSK – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 889-908.

Best regards,

Roland.

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Dr. Roland Pfau
Associate Professor
Sign language linguistics

University of Amsterdam
Department of Linguistics
Spuistraat 134 | 1012 VB Amsterdam
room 6.41
T 020 525 3022
r.pfau at uva.nl
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/r.pfau/

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From: linguists interested in signed languages [SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] on behalf of Dr. Verena Krausneker [verena.krausneker at UNIVIE.AC.AT]
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2016 12:42 PM
To: SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
Subject: Re: Question about SL planning and status

Dear Mantrimas,

-) Here is an up-to-date collection of legislation that supports sign bilingual education in 39 European countries, we published this less than a month ago:
http://www.univie.ac.at/map-designbilingual/?l=en

-) This is a very helpful publication by EUD with a collection of *all* SL-relevant legislation in Europe:
http://www.eud.eu/publication/book-publications/sign-language-legislation-european-union-edition-ii/

-) I am sure you are aware of the resolutions by the European Parliament and the fact that another resolution will hopefully be adopted still this year by the MEPs?
It was drafted here: http://helgastevens.eu/en/nieuwsbericht/279/Multilingualism-and-equal-rights-in-the-EU:-the-role-of-sign-languages
And it goes into great details about access through professional interpreters.

-) You should definitely look into all of Maartje De Meulders recent publications:
De Meulder, M. (2015) Sign language recognition: tensions between specificity and universalism in international deaf discourses. In A. Kusters & M. Friedner (Eds.), It’s Small World. Inquiries into International Deaf Spaces (pp. 160–172). Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.

De Meulder, M. (2015) The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages. Sign Language Studies, 15(4), 498–506.

De Meulder, M. (2016) Promotion in Times of Endangerment: the Sign Language Act in Finland. Language Policy. First published online March 2016 (DOI: 10.1007/s10993-016-9403-5).

De Meulder, M. & Murray, J.J. Buttering Their Bread on Both Sides? The Recognition of Sign Languages and the Aspirations of Deaf communities.
Fothcoming in Language Problems and Language Planning on

-) Maybe you also find this helpful:
Wilcox, Sherman E. , Verena Krausneker und  David F. Armstrong (2012) Language Policies and the Deaf Community. 374 – 395 in: Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy, ed. B. Spolsky. Cambridge University Press

Reagan, Timothy G. (2010) Language Policy and Planning for Sign Languages. Gallaudet UP

-) Personally, I would recommend to include in great detail the issues of parent counselling and access to SL for families. Ensuring a bilingual upbringing needs to be achieved before school.

And, just a question, who is „the team“?

best,
Verena Krausneker

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Dr. phil. Verena Krausneker
University of Vienna/Austria
http://www.univie.ac.at/designbilingual

> From: linguists interested in signed languages [mailto:SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU] On Behalf Of Mantrimas Danielius
> Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2016 4:50 AM
> To: SLLING-L at LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU
> Subject: Question about SL planning and status
>
> Dear all,
>
> We are writing a Lithuanian Sign Language planning strategy for 10 years (2017-2026) and will be happy if you could share some experience or insights on this subject. To be more specific, what we want to ask is:
>
> - if you have some SL planning documents, drafts or similar that you could share with us (preferably in English, but any other language is also welcome), please do that;
>
> - we will also highly appreciate any contributions  about ensuring  access to information for the Deaf people in your country (overviews, legislation etc.);
>
> - if you have some insights on how to plan the use of SL in the light of CI expansion and technological advance, please share with us;
>
> - if you know about some cases where Deaf community or Sign Language community has been officially acknowledged/recognized as a linguistic minority, or at least some attempts have been taken, please let us know.
>
> Thank you everybody for any information provided.
>
> On behalf of the team,
>
> Mantrimas Danielius
> Vilnius University of Applied Sciences