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The Educational Linguistics of Bilingual Deaf Education

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Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics

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Deaf students today are educated largely in monolingual educational contexts despite the fact that the Deaf community defines itself as bilingual and bicultural. In this chapter, we summarize some of the unique issues and historical contexts that characterize deaf education in the United States. We then describe how current research in three sub-fields of cognitive linguistics can lead to new possibilities for creating socially responsible learning environments for deaf students in bilingual settings.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Following conventions from the linguistics literature, ASL signs are represented by English glosses in capital letters.

  2. 2.

    Phonological neighbors are words or signs that have the same phonological form as a target word or sign with the exception of one exchanged phoneme. Some words, such as English cat have many phonological neighbors (mat, pat, kit, cut, can, cap, etc.) and thus have dense phonological neighborhoods. Words with sparse phonological neighborhoods have very few phonological neighbors.

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    Following conventions from the linguistics literature, metaphors are represented in bold small capital letters.

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  1. Albuquerque Public Schools, Albuquerque, USA

    Martina L. Carlson

  2. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

    Jill P. Morford, Barbara Shaffer & Phyllis Perrin Wilcox

  3. NSF Science of Learning Center on Visual Language & Visual Learning (VL2), Albuquerque, USA

    Jill P. Morford

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Carlson, M.L., Morford, J.P., Shaffer, B., Wilcox, P.P. (2010). The Educational Linguistics of Bilingual Deaf Education. In: Hult, F. (eds) Directions and Prospects for Educational Linguistics. Educational Linguistics, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9136-9_7

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