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Session 3- Formality Registers in BSL

Required reading

Zimmer J (1989) Toward a Description of Register Variation in American Sign Language. In C Lucas (ed) The Sociolinguistics of the deaf community.  San Diego: Academic Press. (pp 253-272) (photocopy is available for loan)

Recommended reading

Joos M (1968) The Isolation of Styles.  In J Fishman (ed) Readings in the sociology of language.  The Hague: Mouton. 

Fasold R (1984) The Sociolinguistics of Society.  Oxford: Blackwell.

References to diglossia.

Lee D (1982) Are there really signs of Diglossia?  Re-examining the situation.  Sign Language Studies, 35, 127-152.

Shaw R (1987) Determining Register in Sign-to-English interpreting.  Sign Language Studies, 57, 295-322.

Lucas C & Valli C (1992)  Language contact in the American Deaf Community.  London: Academic Press (first 20 pages or so describing the outcomes of language contact)

  Lecture Notes for Session 3

 

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