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National Sign Languages and Language Policies

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Other literature type 01 Jan 1997Publisher:Springer Netherlands

Authors: Don Miller; Jan Branson;

doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-4538-1_9 , 10.1007/978-0-387-30424-3_12

National Sign Languages and Language Policies

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Abstract

The development of national sign languages and of language policies associated with national sign languages are both relatively recent, and are products of the spread of nationalism, spurred on by national and international movements in the fields of human rights and education. There have, however, always been policies towards sign languages, policies which have overtly or covertly been influenced by wider attitudes towards language in general. These policies have often denied sign language the status of languages and have in turn denied their users their full humanity. The impact of philosophers of language on these policies towards sign languages has often been profound, especially where speech has been assumed to be synonymous with language.

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