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Neither Easy to Understand nor Pleasing to See: The Development of Manual Sign Codes as Language Planning Activity.
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Reagan, Timothy – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1995
Discusses the development of manual sign codes for use in the education of children with deafness as an example of language planning activity. Argues that the development of manual sign codes can be seen as a misguided effort that ignores the linguistic bases of natural sign languages and the language rights of the deaf community. (contains 84…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
How Do You Sign "Apartheid"? The Politics of South African Sign Language.
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Penn, Claire; Reagan, Timothy – Language Problems and Language Planning, 1990
Discusses sign language use in South Africa and the deaf as an oppressed community. The following issues are addressed: language planning and sign language, the role of sign language as the vernacular of an oppressed linguistic community, and the implications of sign language for other cultural and social issues that divide South African society.…
Descriptors: Apartheid, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Planning