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Session 6 - Social Variation in BSL (class and gender)

Required reading

Sutton-Spence R.  Women’s and men’s talk in BSL. (Paper on the CDS website).

Recommended reading

Day, L - Sign Language acquisition of deaf adults in deaf and hearing families.

Unpublished diploma dissertation.  University of Bristol

Nowell E (1989) Conversational Features and Gender in ASL.  In C Lucas (ed) The Sociolinguistics of the deaf community.  San Diego: Academic Press. (pp 273-288) (photocopy is available for loan)

Le Master B & Dwyer J (1991) Knowing and using female and male signs in Dublin.  Sign Language Studies, 73, 361-396.

 Lecture Notes for Session 6

 

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