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Rose, Heath and John Bosco Conama. 2018. Linguistic imperialism: still a valid construct in relation to language policy for Irish Sign Language. Language Policy 17 (3) : 385–404.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | language policy | linguistic human rights | minority language | sign language

Language as a subject

Sign language, Irish

Place, Publisher

Springer

Annotation

This study assays (lack of) Irish Sign Language policy, in linguistic imperialism terms. It proposes proof within a conceptual frame of linguistic imperialism to examine how bias and disparity happen relative to Irish Sign Language users in Ireland.