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Publication details [#29449]

Reagan, Timothy. 1995. Neither easy to understand nor pleasing to see: The development of manual sign codes as language planning activity. Language Problems and Language Planning 19 (2) : 133–150.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

deafness | education | gesture | language planning | sign

Language as a subject

Language of the deaf

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This paper discusses the nature of signed languages; describes the creation and goals of manual sign codes; and analyzes these codes as language planning activities especially in the education of deaf children.