Writing Signed Languages: What For? What Form?
| Autor: | Donald A. Grushkin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Manually coded language Bilingual education Writing media_common.quotation_subject Linguistics 06 humanities and the arts Deafness Sign language Literacy Education Sign Language Speech and Hearing Persons With Hearing Impairments Reading 0602 languages and literature Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Written language Sociology Comprehension media_common Spoken language |
| Zdroj: | American Annals of the Deaf. 161:509-527 |
| ISSN: | 1543-0375 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/aad.2017.0001 |
| Popis: | 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 "icono-graphic." 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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