What's your sign for pizza? : an introduction to variation in American sign language - Lucas, Ceil, 1951-; Bayley, Robert, 1943-; Valli, Clayton, 1951-2003 (Washington, D.C. : Gallaudet University Press, 2003)
This introductory text celebrates another dimension of diversity in the United States Deaf community -- variation in the way American Sign Language (ASL) is used by Deaf people all across the nation. The different ways people have of saying or signing the same thing defines variation in language.
Summary: Some basic concepts about language ; Signs have parts ; Variation: Basic concepts ; Phonological variation ; Syntactic variation ; Lexical variation ; Collecting variable data ; Ceil Lucas: The importance of variation research for deaf communities / Ceil Lucas and Robert Bayley. Ceil Lucas: Lexican variation in African American and white signing / Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Ruth Reed, and Alyssa Wulf. Ceil Lucas: Sociolinguistic variation / Ceil Lucas ... et al.
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Keywords: ASL; American sign language