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Deuchar, Margaret – 1978
This paper deals with the integrative function of sign language in the British deaf community. Sign language communities exhibit a special case of diglossia in that they exist within a larger, hearing community not necessarily characterized by diglossia itself. British Sign Language includes at least two diglossic varieties, with different…
Descriptors: Community Relations, Deafness, Dialect Studies, Diglossia
Department of Education and Science, London (England). – 1968
The results of study in England and Wales to determine the place of fingerspelling and signing in deaf education are reported. The scope and procedure of the inquiry, its context, the meaning of terms, the linguistic quality methods of communication, variable factors likely to affect the attainments of children with impaired hearing, and present…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Education, Exceptional Child Education
