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Call for Abstracts - Recognizing Sign Languages: An International Overview of National Campaigns for Sign Language Legislation and Their Outcomes

This edited collection surveys national advocacy campaigns for the legal recognition of sign languages around the world and the legislation which sometimes resulted from these campaigns. Each chapter will focus on a country’s campaign, its outcomes in terms of the type of sign language legislation achieved versus desired outcomes and deaf community expectations for this legislation. Chapters will cover strategies used in achieving passage of this legislation, including alliance building and negotiations with governments and other stakeholders, as well an account of barriers confronted in the legislative process and how these were or were not overcome. The legislation will be summarized and chapters will look at the work undertaken in the implementation of the law, including language promotion bodies and the policy-making processes post-passage. This includes evaluation of the success of the legislation vis-à-vis deaf community goals. Chapters will set sign language laws within their national settings, with reference to the language policies and the status of other minority languages of that country.

Submit a one paragraph abstract by March 6, 2017.

View the full call for abstracts at https://www.researchgate.net/project/Call-for-Abstracts-Recognizing-Sign-Languages-An-International-Overview-of-National-Campaigns-for-Sign-Language-Legislation-and-Their-Outcomes