All Outputs (2)

Japanese as a second language for Japanese Sign Language (JSL) users: Pragmatic strategies used in their L1 JSL and L2 Japanese and their perceptions of Japanese (2025)
Thesis
Otsuka, A. (2025). Japanese as a second language for Japanese Sign Language (JSL) users: Pragmatic strategies used in their L1 JSL and L2 Japanese and their perceptions of Japanese [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00553896

This thesis focuses on Deaf Japanese Sign Language (JSL) users, who use Japanese as their second language (L2). Deaf signers in Japan use JSL as their first language (L1) and also use the written form of Japanese as citizens living in Japanese societ... Read More about Japanese as a second language for Japanese Sign Language (JSL) users: Pragmatic strategies used in their L1 JSL and L2 Japanese and their perceptions of Japanese.

Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets (2025)
Thesis
Winstanley, B. (2025). Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043369

Conducted in collaboration with the Tower Hamlets based community organisation Osmani Trust, this sociolinguistic ethnography responds to local concerns that Sylheti is undergoing language shift to English. Existing studies have tended to focus on Sy... Read More about Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets.