Sign language choice and policy among the signing community in Kuwait.
Sign language is significant in its linguistic complexity and sociocultural values to its users. The linguistic situation of sign languages in the Middle East is controversial. For Arab deaf communities, each country has a rich and complex national sign language without the need for a superior, more...
| Publicado en: | DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 166 - 184 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=177220008&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 177220008 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10604367 S2B jtl: DOMES: Digest of Middle East Studies issn: 10604367 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: May2024 vid: 33 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 177220008 10.1111/dome.12316 ppf: 166 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P size: 2.9MB tig: atl: Sign language choice and policy among the signing community in Kuwait. aug: au: Almubayei, Dalal S. affil: The College of Basic Education, The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Ardiya, Kuwait su: Kuwait Middle East Sign language Language policy Interpreters for the deaf Attitudes toward language Linguistic complexity sug: subj: Sign language Language policy Interpreters for the deaf Kuwait Middle East Translation and Interpretation Services Attitudes toward language Linguistic complexity keyword: ArSL deaf community education human rights identity KSL language policies identidad lengua de signos lengua de signos kuwaití 手语 科威特手语 身份 ArSL deaf community education human rights identity KSL language policies identidad lengua de signos lengua de signos kuwaití 手语 科威特手语 身份 ab: Sign language is significant in its linguistic complexity and sociocultural values to its users. The linguistic situation of sign languages in the Middle East is controversial. For Arab deaf communities, each country has a rich and complex national sign language without the need for a superior, more standard unifying Arabic sign language (ArSL). There have been attempts to unify sign languages by creating ArSL. This initiative has been mostly taken by nondeaf persons and has been met with opposition and resistance. This paper investigates sign languages in Kuwait and the attitudes towards both Kuwaiti Sign Language (KSL) and ArSL from both deaf individuals and sign language translators/teachers using surveys, informal interviews, and fieldwork visits. The research question is: What sign language would the deaf community and sign language interpreters/teachers in Kuwait choose (KSL, ArSL, or both) to better serve the deaf community. This paper is designed to uncover the impact of language policies on communities' representations of self and explore the richness and complexity of national sign languages that can be underestimated by language policymakers. The findings of this study indicate a preference for KSL or the use of both KSL and ArSL, but not ArSL alone. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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