Signed languages and globalization
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Signed languages and globalization
Deaf peoplewho form part of a Deaf community communicate using a shared sign language. When meeting people from another language community, they can fall back on a flexible and highly context-dependent form of communication called INTERNATIONAL SIGN, in which shared elements from their own sign languages and elements of shared spoken languages are combined with pantomimic elements. Together wit...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Language in Society
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0047-4045,1469-8013
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404511000480