This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus the volume is highly innovative and presents data and analyses not previously available.

• Contents
• About this book
• Part I
• Forces shaping sign multilingualism
• Repair in cross-signing: Trouble sources, repair strategies and communicative success
• Two languages at hand – Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers
• Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation
• A minimalist perspective on code blending in TİD – Turkish bimodal bilingualism
• Blending languages: Bimodal bilinguals and language synthesis
• Methodological innovations in sign multilingualism research
• Part II
• Burundi Sign Language-Indian Sign Language bilinguals’ community of practice
• A community profile of “sign-speakers” at the Indore Deaf Bilingual Academy
• Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in the UK
• Micro-communities of practice: A case study of cross-signing participants in India
• Community profile of an international group of sign language users: Linguistic and social aspects
• Language Index
• Subject Index