Perspectives on British Sign Language and Deafness

Autorentext

Bencie Woll

James Kyle

Margaret Deuchar

Inhalt

Part One: Psychological aspects Introduction 1. Sign language in education: some consequent problems 2. Some developmental aspects of prelingual deafness 3. Psycholinguistic processes in prelingually deaf adolescents 4. Signs and memory: the search for the code 5. Simultaneous Interpreting Part Two: Linguistic aspects Introduction 6. Variation in British Sign Language 7. Grammatical processes in British Sign Language 8. Question Structure in British Sign Language 9. Psycholinguistic Perspectives on Visual Communication Part Three: Communication aspects Introduction 10. The role of sign in the structure of the deaf community 11. The influence of British Sign Language structure on communication teaching techniques 12. A psychiatric view of the importance of the early use of sign language 13. Sign language in an unfavourable setting: a perspective 14. Early language development in deaf children Appendix: British Sign Language transcription and notation