Construction of deaf narrative identity in creative South African Sign Language

In this paper we observe how deaf narrative identity (identities) emerge in creative SASL texts. We first identify how difficulties in establishing deaf cultural identities in the hearing-dominant world are represented in the ‘Man Against Monster’ plot (Booker 2004) commonly employed in sign languag...

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Main Authors: Morgan, Ruth, Kaneko, Michiko
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2020-06-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
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Online Access:https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/792