Recently added articles from Sign Language Studies:
With I. King Jordan
Apr 01, 2007; Anonymous ... SLS: The accident that caused your deafness must have been a life changing event. Can you put into words what this event has meant for your subsequent life? IKJ: Often when I talk about what "happened to me" as a result of my becoming deaf, I say that if I were to make a list of all the ...
Change in Editorship
Apr 01, 2007; Armstrong, David F ... LETTER FROM THE EDITOR I HAVE INFORMED THE GaLLAUDET UNIVERSITY PRESS that I intend to resign as editor of Sign Language Studies effective December 31, 2008. The Press plans to name a new editor by the end of 2007 so as to provide time for an orderly transition. Accordingly the Press ...
Learning about Hearing People in the Land of the Deaf: An Ethnographic Account
Apr 01, 2007; Gesser, Audrei ... This article is a personal account, grounded in some concepts of postcolonial/cultural studies (Bhabha 1990, 1994; Hall 1992), interactional sociolinguistics (Gumperz 1986; Jacob and Ochs 1995), and in theoretical and methodological ethnographic perspectives (Agar 1980, 1994; Erickson and Shultz ...
Symmetry in Sign Language Poetry
Apr 01, 2007; Sutton-Spence, Rachel; Kaneko, Michiko ... Hermann Weyl opened his classic 1952 lecture on symmetry with a clear definition of the concept: If I am not mistaken the word symmetry is used in our everyday language in two meanings. In one sense symmetric means something like well-proportioned, 'well-balanced, and symmetry denotes ...
Sociolinguistic Variation in the Use of Fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language: A Pilot Study
Apr 01, 2007; Schembri, Adam; Johnston, Trevor ... THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS THE RESULTS from a preliminary investigation into the use of fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), drawing on data collected as part of the Sociolinguistic Variation in Australian Sign Language project (Schembri and Johnston 2004; Schembri, Johnston, and ...
Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human
Apr 01, 2007; Chaikind, Stephen ... Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human, by Michael Chorost (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005, 232 pp., Hardcover, $24. ISBN 0-618-37829-4)* "To thine own self be true." William Shakespeare, Hamlet BEGINNING A REVIEW of Michael Chorost's fascinating ...