Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics)

Acknowledged authors Lucas, Ceil, Valli, Clayton, Bayley, Robert wrote Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics) comprising 192 pages back in 2001. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 1563681137 and 9781563681134. Since then Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics) textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

This volume provides a complete description of ASL variation. People from varying regions and backgrounds have different ways of saying the same thing. For example, in English some people say "test," while others say "tes'," dropping the final "t." Noted scholars Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, and Clayton Valli led a team of exceptional researchers in applying techniques for analyzing spoken language variation to ASL. Their observations at the phonological, lexical, morphological, and syntactic levels demonstrate that ASL variation correlates with many of the same driving social factors of spoken languages, including age, socioeconomic class, gender, ethnic background, region, and sexual orientation. Internal constraints that mandate variant choices for spoken languages have been compared to ASL as well, with intriguing results.