BSL in its Social Context
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BSL in its Social Context
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Session 7 – More social variation in BSL(Sexuality, ethnic and spoken
language identity and religion)
Required
reading Lanesman & Sutton-Spence. Jewish
dialects of BSL. (Paper on the CDS website). Recommended reading
Rudner, W., &
Butowsky, R. (1981). Signs used in the deaf gay community. Sign Language Studies, 30, 36-48 Silverman Kleinfeld M and
Warner N (1996) Variation in the Deaf community: Gay, lesbian and bisexual signs. In C Lucas (ed) Multicultural aspects of Sociolinguistics
in deaf communities. Washington DC:
Gallaudet University Press. Go also to web pages using
“polari” as a search word – there are several useful sites. Monaghan L (1991) The
founding of two deaf churches. Sign
Language Studies, 73, 431-452 Aramburo A (1989)
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community.
In C Lucas (ed) The Sociolinguistics of the deaf community. San Diego: Academic Press. (pp 103-121) (photocopy
is available for loan) |
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