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Cohn, Jim – Sign Language Studies, 1986
A new deaf poetics has emerged, characterized by the focus on the centrality of the image in both American Sign Language (ASL) poems and in the international poetry community. A series of performances by ASL poets and other activities linking poets have provided new data to support the universal, i.e., poetic, phase through which language…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, Language Rhythm, Language Usage