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Direct linkReagan, Timothy – Sign Language Studies, 2021
This article offers a brief overview of historical linguistics and explores the value of historical "sign" linguistics. The specific focus of the article is on the question of the extent to which the concept of "sign language families" is a legitimate and useful one. It is suggested that although lateral transmission and…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Diachronic Linguistics, Correlation, Language Classification
Wallang, Melissa G. – Sign Language Studies, 2015
Despite the fact that Indian Sign Language (ISL) has a significant influence on the native signers in northeastern India, no studies of ISL have yet taken into account the nature of the sign languages in use in this region. This article examines the emergence of both Shillong Sign Language and the Deaf community of Shillong and discusses the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Multimedia Materials, Deafness, Foreign Countries
Murray, Joseph J. – Sign Language Studies, 2015
The past three decades of activism for linguistic human rights (Skutnabb-Kangas 2000) have witnessed examples of language planning by various national and supranational actors in national and international spaces, with an exchange of ideas and strategies employed by national, regional, and worldwide organizations. In many countries a key goal of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Deafness, Advocacy, Activism
Sprenger, Kristen; Mathur, Gaurav – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article focuses on the syntactic level of the grammar of Saudi Arabian Sign Language by exploring some word orders that occur in personal narratives in the language. Word order is one of the main ways in which languages indicate the main syntactic roles of subjects, verbs, and objects; others are verbal agreement and nominal case morphology.…
Descriptors: Language Research, Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Word Order
Peer reviewedPenn, Claire; Reagan, Timothy – Sign Language Studies, 1994
Argues that, although South African Sign Language (SASL) contains a high degree of lexical diversity, there exists an underlying common syntactic and morphological base on which all the different varieties are grounded. This common base provides a foundation on which future educational and language policy may be developed. (17 references)…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Deafness, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Shaw, Sherry – Sign Language Studies, 2006
The expansion of interpretation research projects across national boundaries contributes to improved personal, professional, and intellectual outcomes for researchers and practitioners. Establishing and maintaining these collaborative teams may be especially beneficial to strengthening the research agenda of new researchers. Conducting…
Descriptors: International Studies, Deafness, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries
