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Direct linkMcKee, Rachel Locker; Manning, Victoria – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Status planning through legislation made New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) an official language in 2006. But this strong symbolic action did not create resources or mechanisms to further the aims of the act. In this article we discuss the extent to which legal recognition and ensuing language-planning activities by state and community have affected…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Sign Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Mckee, Rachel – Sign Language Studies, 2017
New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) became an official language (NZSL Act 2006) when its vitality was already under pressure. Even though its institutional status has improved recently, the traditional community domains of NZSL use and transmission are apparently shrinking inasmuch as most of the deaf children who have cochlear implants are acquiring…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Official Languages, Deafness, Assistive Technology
Geraci, Carlo – Sign Language Studies, 2012
Italian Sign Language (LIS) is the name of the language used by the Italian Deaf community. The acronym LIS derives from Lingua italiana dei segni ("Italian language of signs"), although nowadays Italians refers to LIS as Lingua dei segni italiana, reflecting the more appropriate phrasing "Italian sign language." Historically,…
Descriptors: Dialects, American Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning
Peer reviewedMcArthur, Douglas – Sign Language Studies, 1991
Applies a taxonomic principle to analyze the gradual elaboration of any language or sign system as a technology of communication rather than the reflection of a specialized language faculty or cluster of language faculties. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Classification, Language Maintenance, Language Planning
