New Perspectives on the History of American Sign Language

Autor/inn/en	Shaw, Emily; Delaporte, Yves
Titel	New Perspectives on the History of American Sign Language
Quelle	In: Sign Language Studies, 11 (2011) 2, S.158-204 (47 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0302-1475
Schlagwörter	Etymology; Deafness; Foreign Countries; French; American Sign Language; Dictionaries; Comparative Analysis; Diachronic Linguistics; Contrastive Linguistics; Finger Spelling; France; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Etymologie; Gehörlosigkeit; Taubstummheit; Ausland; Französisch; Dictionary; Wörterbuch; Linguistics; Diachronische Sprachbetrachtung; Historische Linguistik; Kontrastive Linguistik; Fingeralphabet; Frankreich; USA
Abstract	Examinations of the etymology of American Sign Language have typically involved superficial analyses of signs as they exist over a short period of time. While it is widely known that ASL is related to French Sign Language, there has yet to be a comprehensive study of this historic relationship between their lexicons. This article presents preliminary results of an exhaustive study of historic documents in French Sign Language and American Sign Language, as well as fieldwork in regions in France and the United States that will ultimately culminate in a historic dictionary of American Sign Language. We present evidence of relationships in six categories and conclude that a thorough account of the history of ASL requires a systematic examination of contemporary and historic documents in both languages. (Contains 117 figures and 15 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10