Editorial Advisory Board

Contributors

Introduction

PART ONE: VARIATION

Variation in the Deaf Community: Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Signs

PART TWO: MULTILINGUALISM

Everyone Here Speaks Sign Language, Too: A Deaf Village in Bali, Indonesia

PART THREE: LANGUAGE IN DEAF EDUCATION

Bilingual Deaf Education in Venezuela: Linguistic Comments on the Current Situation

What's a Clock? ``Suppose the alarm lights are flashing...'': Sociolinguistic and Educational Implications of Comparing ASL and English Word Definitions

PART FOUR: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Initiation in Visually Constructed Dialogue: Reading Books with Three- to Eight-Year-Old Students Who Are Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Pragmatic Aspects of the Interrogative form in Italian Sign Language

The Tobacco Story: Narrative Structure in an American Sign Language Story

PART FIVE: SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

Just How Hard is it to Learn ASL? The Case for ASL as a Truly Foreign Language

Index