TY - JOUR
T1 - International sign and American sign language as different types of global deaf lingua francas
AU - Kusters, Annelies
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks to Maartje De Meulder, Ceil Lucas, Erin Moriarty, Joseph Murray, Jemina Napier, and an anonymous reviewer for feedback on (parts of ) earlier drafts. All errors are mine. This study was funded by European Research Council grant number 714615 (acronym: MobileDeaf ).
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PY - 2021/7/27
Y1 - 2021/7/27
N2 - International Sign (IS) and American Sign Language (ASL) have both been used as lingua francas within international deaf contexts. Perspectives on the uses of IS and ASL as lingua francas in such contexts are connected to discourses pertaining to the form, function, status, value, languageness, and global reach of IS and ASL. While there are some historical and usage-based parallels between IS and ASL, they are different types of lingua francas, and their uses as lingua franca are evaluated differently in different contexts.
AB - International Sign (IS) and American Sign Language (ASL) have both been used as lingua francas within international deaf contexts. Perspectives on the uses of IS and ASL as lingua francas in such contexts are connected to discourses pertaining to the form, function, status, value, languageness, and global reach of IS and ASL. While there are some historical and usage-based parallels between IS and ASL, they are different types of lingua francas, and their uses as lingua franca are evaluated differently in different contexts.
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U2 - 10.1353/sls.2021.0005
DO - 10.1353/sls.2021.0005
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85101888045
VL - 21
SP - 391
EP - 426
JO - Sign Language Studies
JF - Sign Language Studies
SN - 0302-1475
IS - 4
ER -