Sociolinguistic Variation in the Nativisation of BSL Fingerspelling
British Sign Language (BSL) is a visual-gestural language distinct from spoken languages used in the United Kingdom but in contact with them. One product of this contact is the use of fingerspelling to represent English words via their orthography. Fingerspelled loans can become “nativised”, adaptin...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2017-01-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2017-0007 |