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{"title":"Sign Language in Papua New Guinea. A Primary Sign Language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province by Adam Kendon (review)","authors":"J. Safar","doi":"10.1353/sls.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sls.2021.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41601222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New Trends in ASL Variation Documentation","authors":"C. Occhino, J. Fisher, Joseph C. Hill, Julie A. Hochgesang, Emily Shaw, Meredith Tamminga","doi":"10.1353/sls.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Sign Language Studie s Vol. 21 No. 3 Spring 2021 Corrine Occhino (white hearing American woman, fluent in English and proficient in ASL) is a research assistant professor and director of the Multimodal Language Lab in the Center on Culture and Language at NTID at RIT. Jami N. Fisher (white hearing American woman, fluent in ASL and English) is the director of American Sign Language in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics. Joseph C. Hill (Black Deaf American man, fluent in ASL and English) is an associate professor in the Department of ASL and Interpreting Education, director of the Deaf Studies Lab in the Center on Culture and Language, and assistant dean for Faculty Recruitment and Retention at NTID at RIT. Julie A. Hochgesang, (white Deaf American woman, fluent in ASL and English) is an associate professor in the Linguistics Department at Gallaudet University. Emily Shaw (white hearing American woman, fluent in ASL and English) is an associate professor in the Department of Interpretation and Translation at Gallaudet University. Meredith Tamminga, (white hearing American woman, fluent in English and learning ASL) is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and director of the Language Variation and Cognition Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. R E P O R T O N O N G O I N G R E S E A R C H","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sls.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48089670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deaf Activists and the Irish Sign Language Movement, 1980–2017","authors":"Noel P. O’Connell","doi":"10.1353/sls.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:There is a dearth of qualitative research concerning deaf people's experiences of participating in the Irish Sign Language (ISL) recognition movement, and this limits our ability to understand the opportunities and constraints they encountered as they negotiated their way toward the passing of the ISL Act 2017. While ISL is unique to Ireland, it is also of crucial importance to deaf people's identity and the quality of their social and educational life. The aim of this qualitative study is to reveal the primary findings derived from interviews with nine deaf activists who participated in this study. Framed within the social movement theory and the Freirean concept of critical consciousness, the study illuminates the background on how and why deaf activists managed to overcome some significant challenges during the ISL movement. The findings show that deaf activists successfully negotiated their way through the political and legal system to achieve their goal. Discussions and conclusions drawn from the findings suggest that deaf people have the potential to be both agents of social change and effective social movement activists. Finally, the article seeks to be added to the canon of literature on sign language studies and the emerging research on sign language recognition.","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sls.2021.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49253547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assimilation of Libras Signs in Joke Texts","authors":"Walber Gonçalves Marília de Nazaré de Abreu, Marília de Nazaré de Oliveira Ferreira","doi":"10.1353/sls.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This study contributes to research in the field of phonology of sign languages, focusing on the occurrence of assimilation of signs. The objective of the study is to analyze assimilation cases present in the text genre \"joke\" in Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), as well as influences of the immediate context on their occurrence. We understand that assimilation occurs when one unit takes features from another unit next to it (Liddell and Johnson 1989; Valli et al. 2011; Resende 2012). Thus, four jokes were selected from the YouTube video platform and signs that show the process of assimilation were selected to constitute our corpus. The data were analyzed qualitatively. Based on the corpus and on the analyses, we found that the tendency, in the four jokes in Libras that we investigated, is that one-hand signs affect one-hand signs in a progressive and strong way. Therefore, we conclude that it is possible to hypothesize that assimilation occurs as a principle of linguistic economy, considering that the sign unit that is assimilated into the other would be very distant from the unit (previous or subsequent) of the sign, which would be antieconomic.","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/sls.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44429242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Use of Social Networking Sites among Greek Deaf People: Communication Accessibility or Preferences?","authors":"Theodoros G. Martzos, Pelagia Dinopoulou, A. Okalidou","doi":"10.1353/SLS.2020.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLS.2020.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While societies have become increasingly dependent on both internet- and information technology-based knowledge retrieval and applications and as social media has become an inextricable aspect of most people's daily lives, a keen interest has emerged regarding the impact that these technologies have on Deaf people's lives. This article describes an original preliminary investigation of how these technologies affect Greek Deaf people's lives—we intended to collect preliminary data on which future studies can be based. The collected data can be considered an early indication of the Greek Deaf community's generic attitude toward social media. The data also indicate that the use of social networking sites (SNSs) is altering the concept of the Greek Deaf community. It investigates—for the first time—the utilization frequency of most known SNSs (such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, and LinkedIn) by Greek Deaf adults, the daily amount of hours they spend surfing these sites, and their hardware technology preferences. Additionally, this research records the views of Greek Deaf adults regarding the purpose of social media utilization. The researchers compare their responses with those of hearing people, and they then conclude whether the results coincide or not. A questionnaire was filled out electronically by 49 Deaf people (24 males/25 females) and 229 hearing people (30 males/199 females) from across Greece via the Google.docs application. The gestural, visual–spatial modality of Greek Sign Language, as well as the Greek Deaf community's adjustment to the technology era, is mirrored in the responses of both Deaf and hearing participants. Hearing people use both Facebook (p = .021) and YouTube (p = .000) at a greater rate, while Deaf people significantly prefer Instagram (p = .006). Additionally, Deaf participants preferred to use desktop computers (p = .004), indicating introversion, while hearing participants preferred laptop computers (p = .002) for surfing social media. Lastly, the Deaf participants significantly used SNSs for gathering information, communicating, being entertained, and socializing.","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SLS.2020.0033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46753000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Basics of the South Sudanese Deaf Community and the Sign Language","authors":"Eyasu Hailu, Sophia Mohammed","doi":"10.1353/SLS.2020.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLS.2020.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SLS.2020.0035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44749337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unlock(e)ing T. H. Gallaudet's Philosophy of Language","authors":"E. Sayers","doi":"10.1353/SLS.2020.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLS.2020.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the early decades of the nineteenth century, when Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was famously advocating for sign language to be the language of instruction for deaf children in the United States, European philosophers were founding modern linguistics. Gallaudet was not able to benefit from their breakthroughs, however, because his upbringing, education, and religious beliefs all conspired to preclude any interest in European thought or, indeed, any secular thought at all. For this reason, his arguments for sign language were seen as naive and uninformed by educated people of his day and thus were easily dismissed by liberally educated oralists, who were better acquainted with new ways of understanding the human mind. The first part of the present study examines the limitations on what Gallaudet read and learned in his college courses and graduate studies, as well as how his underlying religious beliefs about language, its origin, and its purposes worked to compound these limitations. The second part of this study shows how his archaic ideas about language undermined his public efforts for sign language instruction. In short, Gallaudet argued for the right thing—sign language education—but he supported his arguments with reasoning based on assumptions few thinkers of his time could any longer accept.","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SLS.2020.0034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45520102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sign Language Phonology by Diane Brentari (review)","authors":"A. Becker","doi":"10.1353/SLS.2020.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SLS.2020.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SLS.2020.0036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46938776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dissertations, 2020–2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sls.2021.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2021.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66818533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Annual Index To Volume 21","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/sls.2021.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2021.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21753,"journal":{"name":"Sign Language Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66818510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}