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An emergent body of scholarly research on sub-Saharan signed languages (SSSL) and related Deaf community organizing has created the opportunity to gather together the informed perspectives presented in this revolutionary collection.
This work presents the first sociohistorical and linguistic study of Black ASL. Supplemental online video includes signed chapter summaries and interviews with BASL users.
These essays explore deaf peoples’ claims to autonomy in their personal, religious, social, and organizational lives.
Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children: A Bilingual Introduction, by Deborah Chen Pichler, Marlon Kuntze, Diane Lillo-Martin, Ronice Müller de Quadros, and Marianne Rossi Stumpf
This video textbook, signed entirely in ASL, offers an accessible introduction to first, second, and bilingual language acquisition, focusing on sign languages as the primary frame of reference.
This quarterly journal presents a singular forum for groundbreaking research on the language, culture, history, and literature of signing communities and signed languages. Check out the articles below, which we made available free to all readers in celebration of International Week of the Deaf 2020:
Linguistic Ethnography and Sign Language Studies, by Annelies Kusters and Lynn Hou
Filmmaking in a Linguistic Ethnography of Deaf Tourist Encounters, by Erin Moriarty
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