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How Do You Sign "Apartheid"? The Politics of South African Sign Language

Language Problems and Language Planning, 1990
ISICATSHULWA Ulubonisa Njani "Ucalu-Calulo Lweentlanga" ? lipolitiki zolwimi lwentshukumo lomZantsi Afrika Eli phepha linika inkcukacha yengxoxo yale meko ikhoyo malunga nokusetyenziswa nokuqhubela phambili ulwimi lwentshukumo emZantsi Afrika, kunye nonxulumano lwalo neminye imibandela yezentlalo nezobupolitiki ehambelana nobuThulu njengeqela ...
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Classifier Predicates and the Creation of Multiple Perspectives in South African Sign Language

Sign Language Studies, 2003
This article examines some of the options that South African Sign Language offers for the representation of multiple perspectives on an event. The authors focus on picture descriptions that use classifier predicates. They show that signers use constructed action in conjunction with classifier predicates to create simultaneous multiple perspectives on ...
Debra Aarons, Ruth Zilla Morgan
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Ideological framing of sign languages and their users in the South African press

Multilingua
Abstract This exploratory study provides an overview of prominent themes pertaining to portrayals of sign languages (SLs) and Deaf people in the South African press (2011–2019), as well as an analysis of a subset of articles to illustrate the discursive constructions of each of the prominent ideological framings.
Carmel Carne, Marcelyn Oostendorp, Anne Baker   +2 more
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Negation and polar question–answer clauses in South African Sign Language

Sign Language & Linguistics, 2020
AbstractThis paper contributes to the typological debate of whether sign languages should be divided into manual versus non-manual dominant languages, w.r.t. negation, a distinction that has recently been challenged (Johnston 2018) or argued to be too radical (Oomen & Pfau 2017), by providing a characterization of negation in South African Sign ...
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An Analysis of Hearing Learner Errors in South African Sign Language as a Second Language and Modality

Sign Language Studies
Abstract: This article aims to identify common errors made by hearing students learning South African Sign Language (SASL) and enhance the understanding of language acquisition in this context. The researchers formulated three hypotheses, attributing errors to vocabulary gaps, misunderstandings due to improper signing, and the dual impact of spoken ...
Marga Stander, Hazel Sivell
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Visual Vernacular in South African Sign Language

Sign Language Studies, 2020
Atiyah Asmal, Michiko Kaneko
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South African Sign Language - zwischen Gesetz und Realität

2013
In South Africa approximately 70 % of the Deaf population has no job and two out of three Deaf are functionally illiterate. You find this situation although the language of the South African Deaf community is established in the Constitution of South Africa whereby South Africa has a pioneering role within the whole of Africa.
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Sign language as the bridge across Deaf boundaries: a South African experience

Communicatio, 1998
ABSTRACT This article provides a discussion of some of the communication boundaries Deaf people encounter in a hearing world and the consequences of their seriously delayed language development on the social, emotional, educational and vocational aspects of their lives.
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Structure of simple declarative clauses in South African Sign Language

Sign Language & Linguistics
Abstract This paper presents the first corpus-driven linguistic description of South African Sign Language (SASL) and the first exploration of the structure of simple declarative clauses in SASL. Using a corpus of 40 narratives of 25 signers from three South African provinces, the study finds that SASL ...
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South African Sign Language:

2014
Debra Aarons, Louise Reynolds
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