Multilingualism and Sign Languages - From the Great Plains to Australia : From the Great Plains to Australia

Editorial Advisory Board vii Editor's Introduction ix PART ONE: MULTILINGUALISM A Historical Linguistic Account of Sign Language among North American Indians 3(36) Jeffrey E. Davis PART TWO: LANGUAGE CONTACT Comparing Language Contact Phenomena between Auslan-English Interpreters and Deaf Australians: A Preliminary Study 39(40) Jemina Napier Capitalizing on Simultaneity: Features of Bimodal Bilingualism in Hearing Italian Native Signers 79(42) Michele Bishop Sherry Hicks Antonella Bertone Rita Sala PART THREE: VARIATION Name Dropping: Location Variation in Australian Sign Language 121(38) Adam Schembri Trevor Johnston Della Goswell PART FOUR: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Establishing and Maintaining Sight Triangles: Conversations between Deaf Parents and Hearing Toddlers in Puerto Rico 159(29) Susan Mather Yolanda Rodriguez-Fraticelli Jean F. Andrews Juanita Rodriguez Tortoise, Hare, Children: Evaluation and Narrative Genre in Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) 188(64) Marion Blondel Christopher Miller Anne-Marie Parisot He and I: The Depersonalization of Self in an American Sign Language Narrative 252(29) Bryan K. Eldredge Contributors 281(2) Index 283