In this article we discuss the practice and politics of translanguaging in the context of deaf
signers. Applying the translanguaging concept to deaf signers brings a different perspective …

This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign
languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It …

Cosmopolitanism theory was mostly developed separately from the study of multilingualism:
while language is central to cosmopolitanism as a practice, only a few scholars focusing on …

Lev Vygotsky (1993) described deaf ontology as dynamic interactions that uniquely but
inexorably synthesize biology and society. The deaf biosocial condition is a deceptively …

This paper identifies some common and specific pitfalls in the development of sign language
technologies targeted at deaf communities, with a specific focus on signing avatars. It makes …

Vygotsky's (1993) Fundamentals of Defectology is a radical's handbook of deaf and
disability studies. Vygotsky's overall research program views disabilities, including deafness …

The questionnaire has a long tradition of being employed as an instrument of attitude
elicitation, and early on in the development of language attitudes as a field of study, this …

Little is known about local, vernacular language ideologies about sign language
development in deaf and hearing children in diverse communicative ecologies from the …

This article is based on data from an empirical research project on the multilingual situation
of deaf migrants in Sweden. Deaf migrants attending folk high schools are a heterogeneous …

This article highlight and discuss the complex situation when deaf adults who are emergent
readers learn Swedish Sign Language (STS) and Swedish in parallel. As Swedish appears …