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"Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys. Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totalling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience - such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel, travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike."--

Deaf --- Children with disabilities. --- Means of communication.

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Les sourds-muets, aujourd’hui rebaptisés « sourds » - ce qui n’est pas sans entraîner quelques confusions - ont été entièrement délaissés par les sciences sociales, qui ont cru sur parole le discours médical de la déficience et de sa réparation à tout prix. Ce discours, qui semble relever de l’évidence tant la surdimutité est un objet de scandale pour la pensée ordinaire, est pourtant historiquement daté : au xixe siècle, les sourds-muets étaient reconnus comme une catégorie anthropologique, avant que la langue des signes ne soit interdite pendant cent ans à partir de 1880 dans les instituts d’enseignement. Les sourds sont porteurs d’une radicale étrangeté. Pour eux, être sourd réfère moins à un déficit d’audition qu’à l’affiliation à un groupe linguistique et culturel. Symétriquement, l’entendant est moins celui qui est pourvu d’audition que l’autre culturel : celui qui, ne connaissant pas la langue des sourds, se méprend sur ce qu’ils sont. Un profond sentiment de complétude, incompréhensible pour les tenants de l’idéologie de la déficience, se fonde sur l’existence d’une langue qui, pour emprunter un canal différent de celui de toutes les autres langues humaines, n’en présente pas moins les mêmes fonctions et les mêmes richesses. « Les sourds, c’est comme ça » : telle est l’expression qui conclut fréquemment les récits, et qui a pour fonction de souligner ce qu’il y a d’unique dans l’expérience sourde du monde. Fidèle à sa vocation, qui est de décrire les productions collectives d’un groupe humain, telles qu’elles sont vécues et pensées par lui, l’ethnologue donne à voir l’autre côté du miroir. Lui aussi montre, à sa manière, que « les sourds, c’est comme ça ». Bilan de sept années d’enquête, ce livre vient infirmer les représentations communes de la surdimutité comme malheur individuel. Il la montre telle qu’elle est : une singularité qui a trouvé sa voie propre pour accéder à la symbolisation.

Sourds --- Linguistique cognitive --- Langue des signes --- Deaf --- Sign language --- Cognitive grammar --- Communication --- Means of communication --- Social conditions --- Deafness --- Surdité --- Ethnological aspect --- Aspect anthropologique --- Linguistique cognitive. --- Langue des signes. --- Communication. --- Sign language. --- Social conditions. --- Anthropology --- Gesture language --- Language and languages --- Gesture --- Signs and symbols --- Deaf-mutes --- Deaf people --- Hearing impaired --- Deafblind people --- Patients --- Deaf - Social conditions --- Cognitive grammar. --- Means of communication.

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The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languages and vice versa. Conversely, sign linguistics cannot be separated from Deaf community practices, including practices in education and interpretation. Therefore, the current volume brings together work on sign language interpreting, the use of spoken and sign language with deaf children with cochlear implants and early language development in children exposed to both a spoken and sign language, and reports on recent research on aspects of sign language structure. It also includes papers addressing methodological issues in sign language research. The book presents papers by "more seasoned" researchers and "new kids on the block", as well as papers in which the two collaborate. The contributions will be of interest to all those interested in linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural studies, interpreting and education. It will have particular relevance to those interested in sign linguistics, sociolinguistics of deaf communities, Deaf studies, Deaf culture, sign language interpretation, sign language teaching, and (spoken/signed) bilingualism. Given the scarcity of literature on "Deaf studies", the book will also appeal widely beyond the traditional academic milieu. As a result, it has relevance for those teaching and learning sign languages, for professional and student interpreters and for teachers of the deaf.

Sign language --- Sign language. --- Deaf --- Means of communication. --- Gesture language --- Speech-reading --- Speechreading --- Education --- Speech --- Language and languages --- Gesture --- Signs and symbols --- Communication --- Applied Linguistics. --- Intercultural Communication. --- Sign Language.

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Die Verberuflichung des Gebärdesprachdolmetschens ist ein kontingenter, fortdauernder und kompetitiver Prozess, bei dem Grenzziehungsarbeit eine zentrale Rolle spielt. Nadja Grbic rekonstruiert in ihrer theoretisch fundierten Untersuchung dessen Entwicklung in Österreich seit dem 19. Jahrhundert, zeigt institutionelle Bedingungen der Professionalisierung auf und gibt Einsichten in Wahrnehmungsmuster, Handlungslogiken und Entscheidungsprozesse der Akteur*innen. Damit entwirft sie einen alternativen Erklärungsrahmen zu Fortschrittsmodellen, der über den Fall von Gehörlosigkeit hinaus eine differenzierte Betrachtung der Vielgestaltigkeit translatorischer Tätigkeiten ermöglicht.

Interpreters for the deaf --- Sign language --- EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions. --- Employment --- Study and teaching --- Austria. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Education. --- Educational Research. --- Institutionalization. --- Pedagogy. --- Profession. --- Professionalisation. --- Sign Language Interpreting. --- Social Pedagogy. --- Sociology of Education. --- Translating. --- Work. --- Deaf --- Gesture language --- Language and languages --- Gesture --- Signs and symbols --- Deaf, Interpreters for --- Sign language interpreters --- Translators --- Translating services --- Means of communication