Philemon Akach
Biographic Data
| ID | 8944854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philemon Akach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philemon |
| FAMILY NAME | Akach |
| SIGNATURE | AKACH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Africa Society for Blood Transfusion |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
South African Sign Language - one language or many? A sociolinguistic question
In this article we discuss the signed language used by the Deaf community in South Africa, and examine the historical conditions for its emergence. We describe the legal and actual situation of South Afiican Sign Language in South Africa today, larly in relation to schooling. We investigate the different factors that underlie the claims that there is more than one sign language in South Africa, and we spell out the practical consequences of accep…
The Grammar of Sign Language
Sign languages are natural visual-gestural languages comparable to other natural spoken languages. Although sign languages share many common universal features, considerable variation may be found amongst them. In this article the phonology, morphology, syntax and certain discourse features of sign languages and other natural languages are compared. Evidence is presented to demonstrate that both spoken and signed languages involve similar process…
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The Grammar of Sign Language
Sign languages are natural visual-gestural languages comparable to other natural spoken languages. Although sign languages share many common universal features, considerable variation may be found amongst them. In this article the phonology, morphology, syntax and certain discourse features of sign languages and other natural languages are compared. Evidence is presented to demonstrate that both spoken and signed languages involve similar process…
South African Sign Language - one language or many? A sociolinguistic question
In this article we discuss the signed language used by the Deaf community in South Africa, and examine the historical conditions for its emergence. We describe the legal and actual situation of South Afiican Sign Language in South Africa today, larly in relation to schooling. We investigate the different factors that underlie the claims that there is more than one sign language in South Africa, and we spell out the practical consequences of accep…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sign language (2 works) · Sociolinguistics of sign languages (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Grammar (1 works) · Hand Gesture Recognition Systems (1 works)