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Black sign language and school integration in Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Madeline M. Maxwell and
Sybil Smith-Todd
Madeline M. Maxwell
Affiliation:
Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Sybil Smith-Todd
Affiliation:
Department of Speech Communication, University of Texas at Austin
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Abstract

Black deaf adults have been said to have “poor communication skills” at least partly because of difficulties interviewers have had in obtaining information from them. Apparently, however, at least in some regions, blacks' sign language has been different from whites' sign language. This paper will present some differences between the sign language of black deaf. persons educated before and since racial integration of the schools and relate these differences to educational policies. Evidence is also provided as to the awareness of these differences and of educational policies on the part of teachers before and after integration. (Sociolinguistic variation, sign languages, minority group language, language death, racial integration)

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Language in Society , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1986, pp. 81 - 93
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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