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From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language

Mieke Van Herreweghe (UGent) , Maartje De Meulder and Myriam Vermeerbergen
(2016) The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice.. In The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education 3.
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This chapter deals with linguistic ideologies and deaf people’s attitudes towards Flemish Sign Language (VGT), in the past, in the present, and to some extent also in the future. In its historical evolution, VGT has developed from complete linguistic erasure (Irvine & Gal 2000) to symbolic recognition by mainstream society and legal recognition by Flemish Parliament, via implicit recognition within the VGT linguistic minority community. This has gone hand in hand with changing attitudes within the Deaf community towards the status of VGT. The 2006 recognition has unmistakably had an empowering effect in the Flemish Deaf community, even though the actual knowledge as to the contents of the recognition decree may be rather meager. At the same time new indications of erasure can be exposed in Flanders, which are leading to serious concerns within the Flemish Deaf community.
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Flemish Sign Language (VGT), Linguistic Ideology, Language attitudes

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Van Herreweghe, Mieke, et al. “From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language.” The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice., edited by Marc Marschark and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer, vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2016.
APA
Van Herreweghe, M., De Meulder, M., & Vermeerbergen, M. (2016). From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language. In M. Marschark & P. E. Spencer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice. (Vol. 3). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Van Herreweghe, Mieke, Maartje De Meulder, and Myriam Vermeerbergen. 2016. “From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language.” In The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice., edited by Marc Marschark and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
Van Herreweghe, Mieke, Maartje De Meulder, and Myriam Vermeerbergen. 2016. “From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language.” In The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice., ed by. Marc Marschark and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer. Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vancouver
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Van Herreweghe M, De Meulder M, Vermeerbergen M. From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language. In: Marschark M, Spencer PE, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2016.
IEEE
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M. Van Herreweghe, M. De Meulder, and M. Vermeerbergen, “From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language,” in The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice., vol. 3, M. Marschark and P. E. Spencer, Eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
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  author       = {{Van Herreweghe, Mieke and De Meulder, Maartje and Vermeerbergen, Myriam}},
  booktitle    = {{The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language: Research, Policy, and Practice.}},
  editor       = {{Marschark, Marc and Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth}},
  isbn         = {{9780190241414}},
  keywords     = {{Flemish Sign Language (VGT),Linguistic Ideology,Language attitudes}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Oxford University Press}},
  series       = {{The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies, Language, and Education}},
  title        = {{From Erasure to Recognition (and Back Again?): The Case of Flemish Sign Language}},
  volume       = {{3}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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