scholarly journals American Sign Language: Innovations in Teaching and Learning in One of the Most Popular Languages in the United States

ADFL Bulletin ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-97
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Sign

Discovering sign language

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
François Grosjean
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Deaf Child ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Sign ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right

The author discovered American Sign Language (ASL) and the world of the deaf whilst in the United States. He helped set up a research program in the psycholinguistics of ASL and describes a few studies he did. He also edited, with Harlan Lane, a special issue of Langages on sign language, for French colleagues. The author then worked on the bilingualism and biculturalism of the deaf, and authored a text on the right of the deaf child to become bilingual. It has been translated into 30 different languages and is known the world over.

Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, 2017

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
Christine Sun Kim ◽  
Amanda Cachia
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Written Form ◽  
Doctor's Office

In Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, Christine Sun Kim’s drawings provide a fascinating constellation of cultural and sensorial experiences with time. Originally from the United States, the artist shares her account of how time (and waiting) is measured differently according to the cities in which she has lived, with each place having its own advantages and drawbacks. While each environment in which one must tediously wait—an immigration office, the health insurance office, the doctor’s office, the bank, an art supplies shop, and the grocery store—is familiar, the subtext of the drawings is how the artist’s relationship with time is also measured by her style of communication. Kim uses American Sign Language and asks questions in a written form using an iPhone on a daily basis as she goes about her chores. “Crip time” is thus also punctuated by the pauses in writing/scrawling questions, in reading, and the creativity involved in ad-lib responding between deaf and non-deaf sensorial modalities.

Phonological variation in American Sign Language: The case of 1 handshape

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bayley ◽  
Ceil Lucas ◽  
Mary Rose
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Grammatical Function ◽  
Language Background ◽  
Show Evidence

This article examines variation in American Sign Language (ASL) signs produced with a 1 handshape, which include signs of nearly all grammatical classes. Multivariate analysis of more than 5,000 tokens, extracted from informal conversations among more than 200 signers in seven different regions of the United States, indicates that variation in the form of these signs is conditioned by multiple linguistic and social factors. Significant factor groups include grammatical function and features of the preceding and following segments, as well as a range of social constraints including age, regional origin, and language background. Two findings are especially notable. First, although the results for preceding and following segment effects show evidence of progressive and regressive assimilation, grammatical function is the first-order linguistic constraint on the use of two of the three main variants. Second, signers in all regions of the United States show similar patterns of variation, thus providing evidence that ASL signers constitute a single “speech” community.

American Sign Language and Contemporary Deaf Studies in the United States

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Reagan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Deaf Studies ◽  
Compte Rendu

SOMMAIRE Langage gestuel américain des sourds et études sur les sourds aux Etats-Unis: Compte rendu Ce compte rendu présente un bref aperçu des principaux ouvrages sur l'histoire, la structure et l'enseignement du langage gestuel américain des sourds (ASL) publiés au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années. Il met également en évidence les recherches sur les qualités linguistiques de ASL et propose une introduction aux études sur la culture des sourds. Bien que cet article mette l'accent sur ASL, il y est question également des études sur le langage gestuel britannique des sourds (BSL), le plus étudié de ces langages après ASL. RESUMO Amerika Gesto-lingvo kaj nuntempaj usonaj studoj pri surdeco La aǔtoro donas mallongan superrigardon de la cefaj verkoj en la historio, strukturo kaj instruado de Amerika Gesto-lingvo (ASL) eldonitaj en la pasintaj dudek kvin jaroj. Li ankaǔ emfazas esplorojn pri la lingvaj ecoj de ASL kaj donas enkondukon al studoj pri la surdula kulturo. Kvankam la eseo fokusiĝas je ASL, ankaǔ diskutigas studoj pri Brita Gesto-lingvo (BSL), kiu estas, post ASL, la plej vaste studata natura gesto-lingvo.

Language Ideologies, Policies, and Attitudes toward Signed Languages

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Language Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Signed Languages ◽  
Signed Language ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

This chapter describes how ideologies about signed languages have come about, and what policies and attitudes have resulted. Language ideologies have governed the formal recognition of signed language at local, national, and international levels, such as that of the United Nations. The chapter discusses three major areas in the study of attitudes toward signed languages: Attitudes versus structural reality; the social factors and educational policies that have contributed to language attitudes; and the impact of language attitudes on identity and educational policy. Even in the United States, American Sign Language does not get recognition as a language in every region, and the attempt to suppress sign language is still operative. This is a worldwide issue for many countries with histories of opposition tosigned languages that parallel the history of the United States.

Examining the Intersectionality of Deaf Identity, Race/Ethnicity, and Diversity Through a Black Deaf Lens1,2

2019 ◽  
pp. 279-304
Author(s):  
Lindsay Moeletsi Dunn ◽  
Glenn B. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Sign Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black American ◽  
American Sign ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Deaf Identity ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Black Deaf

The authors of this chapter, a Black Deaf scholar immigrant from South Africa and a Black Deaf academic from the South Side of Chicago, highlight the limited scholarly exploration of Black Deaf lives within the context of the Deaf community. They present what they could extract from existing literature on Black Deaf historical perspectives, the influence of Black American Sign Language, and what it means to be Black and Deaf. In addition, considering the scarcity of research on non-White Deaf communities, they contribute their personal experiences to highlight the transnational identity issues of Black Deaf immigrants and the identity issues of Black Deaf individuals within the context of the United States. This chapter provides a thought-provoking treatise on what it means to be Black and Deaf with unique backgrounds in the United States.

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