William C. Stokoe and the Study of Signed Languages

The almost universal educational goal for deaf people at this time was acquisition of spoken language and the ability to discern speech on the lips - other educational goals, including the acquisition of general knowledge, were arguably secondary to the development of "oral" skills. Here d...

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Published inSign language studies Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 389 - 397
Main Authors Armstrong, David F., Karchmer, Michael A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Gallaudet University Press 01.07.2009
Subjects
American Sign Language
Armstrong, David
COMMEMORATION
Conferences
Deaf education
Deafness
Education
Educational Objectives
English language
Gestures
Humans
Ideographs
Language
Language acquisition
Linguistic anthropology
Linguistics
Lips
Sapir, Edward
Semiotics
Sign language
Sign languages
Spoken language
Syntax
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Summary:The almost universal educational goal for deaf people at this time was acquisition of spoken language and the ability to discern speech on the lips - other educational goals, including the acquisition of general knowledge, were arguably secondary to the development of "oral" skills. Here deaf people communicate among themselves and with hearing people using a great variety of communication systems and codes that we can now recognize, thanks to Stokoe, as ranging from natural signed languages (mainly ASL), to what look like languages of contact between ASL and English, to invented sign codes syntactically modeled on English.
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ISSN:0302-1475
1533-6263
1533-6263
DOI:10.1353/sls.0.0027