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Publication details [#58709]

Kusters, Annelies. 2014. Language ideologies in the shared signing community of Adamorobe. Language in Society 43 (2) : 139–158.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | deafness | language contact | language use | sign language

Language as a subject

Akan

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper discusses how southern Ghana Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL) is a “shared sign language,” employed by all deaf people and a great number of hearing Akan-speaking people. Hearing interviewees hold experiential perception that everything can be said in AdaSL, underscore the common roots of AdaSL and Akan, and label AdaSL as “natural.”