Profile

Robert Adam

Associate Professor

Campus: Edinburgh
School: School of Social Sciences
Department: Languages & Intercultural Studies
Email: R.Adam@hw.ac.uk

Biography

Robert's research has included: deaf people who are bilingual in two sign languages, deaf people who work as interpreters or translators in the deaf community and other sociolinguistic research into sign languages.

Areas of interest

Deaf studies
Sign language linguistics
Language contact
Sign language contact
Sign language interpreting
Sign language translation
Sign language rights