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  • 20 - Sign Languages in Britain and Ireland

  • from Part III - Multilingualism in Britain and Ireland: Minority Languages
  • Edited by Susan Fox, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book:
    Language in Britain and Ireland
    Published online:
    17 October 2024
    Print publication:
    31 October 2024, pp 439-452

  • Summary

    In this chapter, we give a brief overview of the structure, use, and history of British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, the majority sign languages of the Deaf communities in the United Kingdom and Ireland respectively. After an introduction to the history and social context of each sign language, we present some key features of their grammar, before discussing sociolinguistic variation and change in the two varieties. We close with a discussion of the some of the key applied linguistics dimensions of research into the two sign languages.