Sociolinguistic Variation In American Sign Language

Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley & Clayton Valli

The culmination of a seven-year project, this volume provides a complete description of ASL variation. The researchers applied the same techniques for analysing spoken language variation to ASL variation, and amongst other things they found that ASL variation correlates with many of the same driving social factors of spoken languages, including age, socioeconomic class, gender, ethnic background, region and sexual orientation. Hardcover 192 pages 2001

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