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Linguistic features of the Polish sign language

Author(s): Bartłomiej Cieśla
Subject(s): Communication studies, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Summary/Abstract: The Polish sign language (in Polish, PJM) is a typical form of communication in a society of profoundly deaf people. In modern linguistics, it is viewed in two different ways. Some researchers treat PJM as an ordinary language, while others question its linguistic status. This article describes coincidental and differentiating features of natural sound languages and gestural systems.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 46
  • Page Range: 53-59
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish