Signed languages are forms of human communication based on visual gestural perception as
opposed to aural oral. Those profoundly deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who learn to sign
from an early age live in a bilingual bicultural environment composed of deaf and hearing
realities and hence learn both the signed and non-signed varieties of languages existing in
their societies. Outside English-speaking countries in an increasingly globalized world deaf
people come into contact with the English language in specific domains indirectly through
interpretation and translation or directly by learning it as a foreign language. The reception
production of verbal visual multimodal texts in English facilitates international
communication and integration among the deaf and between deaf and hearing people. The volume
aims to explore a range of intercultural interlinguistic encounters with English in a variety
of international signed and non-signed combinations.
