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Publication details [#58719]

Green, E. Mara. 2014. Building the tower of Babel: International Sign, linguistic commensuration, and moral orientation. Language in Society 43 (4) : 445–465.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

This paper explores International Sign, a sort of signed cross-linguistic communication, in the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) context. It gives prominence to and theorizes the irreducibly relational proportions of linguistic commensuration. It claims that communicating in IS depends upon and generates mutual moral orientation amidst signers, and that on the whole, it is the labor contained in employing IS that deaf people appraise and that the WFD General Assembly institutionalizes.