English in International Deaf Communication Kartoniert (TB)

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.