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How do you sign it? Creating a multimedia multilingual descriptive grammar of South African Sign Language on a digital platform

In August 2023 South African Sign Language (SASL) became the 12th language to be officially recognized in South Africa. This has drastically...

Anne Baker Anne Baker

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Signs on stage: Translating theatre into a sign language

Sign languages, the visual-gestural languages of Deaf communities, lack a written form.

Myriam Vermeerbergen Myriam Vermeerbergen

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The Linguistics of Sign Languages

Baker, Anne, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau, and Trude Schermer, eds. 2016. The Linguistics of Sign Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjami...

Anne Baker Anne Baker
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