BSL in its Social Context
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BSL in its Social Context
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Session 6 - Social Variation in BSL (class
and gender)
Required
reading Sutton-Spence R. Women’s and men’s talk in BSL. (Paper on
the CDS website). Recommended reading
Day, L - Sign
Language acquisition of deaf adults in deaf and hearing families. Unpublished diploma dissertation. University of Bristol Nowell E (1989) Conversational Features
and Gender in ASL. In C Lucas (ed) The
Sociolinguistics of the deaf community. San
Diego: Academic Press. (pp 273-288) (photocopy is available for loan) Le Master B & Dwyer J (1991) Knowing
and using female and male signs in Dublin. Sign
Language Studies, 73, 361-396. |
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