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Direct linkKate 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
O'Connell, Noel – Sign Language Studies, 2022
The development of a considerable body of literature on British Sign Language (BSL) now permits analyzing and describing the sociolinguistic history of the language. An impressive amount of sociolinguistic information on BSL pertaining to the United Kingdom (UK) provides rich material for such analysis, but, until now, very little BSL research has…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Sign Language, Foreign Countries
