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Kate Huddlestone; Andries van Niekerk; Anne Baker – Sign Language Studies, 2025
Variation occurs in sign languages, just as in spoken languages. Lexical variation is very common and has been related to individual schools for the deaf, so-called "schoolization," rather than only to region or other common sociolinguistic factors, such as gender, social class, etc. (Baker et al. 2016). This study investigates lexical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Language Variation
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Bonnie J. Williams-Farrier – College Composition and Communication, 2017
Code-switching pedagogies do not consider that some features of African American Verbal Tradition (AVT) are rhetorically effective mainstream communication structures in academic writing. My research asserts that when teaching language/ dialect difference in majority white school settings, contrastive analysis techniques such as these may have…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Black Dialects, Dialect Studies, Language Variation
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Willis, Linda-Dianne; Exley, Beryl – English in Australia, 2016
The Language Strand of the Australian Curriculum: English (Australian Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting Authority (ACARA), 2016b) includes the sub-strand of "Language Variation and Change". This sub-strand is a marked space for discovery and discussion of the history and politics of language use. As such, this sub-strand points to…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English Curriculum, Language Usage, Educational History