Democratising policy theories: enhancing prospects for language justice for Sign Language Peoples

SCE Batterbury

doi:10.1332/030557312X655701

Democratising policy theories: enhancing prospects for language justice for Sign Language Peoples

SCE Batterbury

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The paper argues that policy-makers in the UK do not perceive Sign Language Peoples (SLPs) as a minority language formation. Policies are based on an assumption of disability and deliver unsatisfactory outcomes that struggle to address linguistic exclusion. Multicultural polices incorporating SLPs’ perspectives would offer greater synergy between policy theory and SLP’s lived-experience. More specifically, democratisation of the policy formulation process could lead to achievement of greater social justice for SLPs. Looking forward, the power of transnational networks to provoke national policy change offers a possible way of breaking through existing UK discourse barriers to more democratic SLP-led policy formulation

Translated title of the contribution	Social Justice, Language Policy and British Sign Language: The Deaf Perspective
Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	547-564
Number of pages	18
Journal	Policy and Politics
Volume	42
Issue number	4
Early online date	1 Oct 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655701
Publication status	Published - Oct 2014

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DEMOCRATISING POLICY THEORIES
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