Writing Signed Languages: What for? What Form?

Autor/in	Grushkin, Donald A.
Titel	Writing Signed Languages: What for? What Form?
Quelle	In: American Annals of the Deaf, 161 (2017) 5, S.509-527 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-726X
Schlagwörter	Sign Language; Written Language; History; Orthographic Symbols; Literacy; Alphabets; Multiple Literacies; Deafness; Bilingual Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gebärdensprache; Geschriebene Sprache; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Buchstabenschrift; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht
Abstract	Signed languages around the world have tended to maintain an "oral," unwritten status. Despite the advantages of possessing a written form of their language, signed language communities typically resist and reject attempts to create such written forms. The present article addresses many of the arguments against written forms of signed languages, and presents the potential advantages of writing signed languages. Following a history of the development of writing in spoken as well as signed language populations, the effects of orthographic types upon literacy and biliteracy are explored. Attempts at writing signed languages have followed two primary paths: "alphabetic" and "iconographic." It is argued that for greatest congruency and ease in developing biliteracy strategies in societies where an alphabetic script is used for the spoken language, signed language communities within these societies are best served by adoption of an alphabetic script for writing their signed language. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01