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LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
Volume 60, Issue -, Pages 44-63Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2018.01.008
Keywords
Gesture; Sign; Deaf; Linguistics; Language ideologies; India
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- Max Planck Institute
- Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity
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This article investigates academic and everyday perspectives on the difference between gesture and sign. A large number of language scholars have suggested that gesture is not language, that different forms of gesturing and signing exist on continua, and/or that they could be classified on a developmental dine. Everyday ideologies of deaf people in Mumbai showed either an analytical collapse of gesture and sign or a distinction between them, and were more focused on hearing status and on contextual factors in deciding whether something counted as gesture or sign -as compared to academic ideologies which were more focused on form. In the context of language classes and research projects, academic ideologies bleed into, are resisted, adopted or transformed in everyday contexts. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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