Ceil Lucas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592029 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ceil Lucas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ceil |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucas |
| SIGNATURE | LUCAS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gallaudet University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Needed Research in American Sign Language Variation
Research Article| December 01 2023 6. Needed Research in American Sign Language Variation Ceil Lucas; Ceil Lucas ceil lucas is professor emerita of linguistics at Gallaudet University and former editor of the journal Sign Language Studies. She has conducted extensive sociolinguistic research on American Sign Language. Her books include Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (with Robert Bay-ley and Clayton Valli; Gallaudet Univ. Pres…
Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics
The sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well as complements the sociolinguistics of spoken languages. All of the key areas of sociolinguistics, such as multilingualism, language contact, variation, and language attitudes-are of immediate relevance to sign languages. At the same time, sign language researchers using a range of data sources and methods (e.g., sign language corpora, linguistic elicitation, and linguistic ethnography) hav…
Segregation and desegregation of the Southern schools for the deaf: The relationship between language policy and dialect development
Recent research has shown that a distinct variety of American Sign Language, known as Black ASL, developed in the segregated schools for deaf African Americans in the US South during the pre-civil rights era. Research has also shown that in some respects Black ASL is closer than most white varieties to the standard taught in ASL classes and found in ASL dictionaries. This article explores the circumstances that resulted in the creation of a disti…
The intersection of African American English and Black American Sign Language
This article reports on the intersection of African American English (AAE) and a variety of American Sign Language (ASL) used by Black signers and known as Black ASL. Based on an extensive videotaped corpus collected from 96 African American signers in the southern United States, we explore the conditions that led to the development of a separate African American variety and document its features. Starting in 1869, 17 states and the District of C…
What's Your Sign for Pizza?: An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language
The Oxford handbook of sociolinguistics
"From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented by the work of Fishman. All of these areas have seen a great deal of growth in recent decades, and recent studies have led to a more bro…
Variation in Sign Languages: Recent Research on ASL and Beyond
This article summarizes early approaches to sociolinguistic research and the factors that condition variation in sign languages. The article then examines the methodological issues that arise in the study of sign languages before discussing recent research on variation in several different sign languages and dialects including Black ASL, Australian Sign Language, New Zealand Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language. This research shows that sign …
What's Your Sign for Pizza: An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language
What's Your Sign for Pizza derives from an extensive seven-year research project in which more than 200 Deaf ASL users representing different age, gender, and ethnic groups from seven different regions were videotaped sharing their signs for everyday vocabulary. This useful text and its accompanying CD begins with an explanation of the basic concepts of language and the structure of sign language, since sign variation abides by the rules governin…
Phonological variation in American Sign Language: The case of 1 handshape
This article examines variation in American Sign Language (ASL) signs produced with a 1 handshape, which include signs of nearly all grammatical classes. Multivariate analysis of more than 5,000 tokens, extracted from informal conversations among more than 200 signers in seven different regions of the United States, indicates that variation in the form of these signs is conditioned by multiple linguistic and social factors. Significant factor gro…
Lexical Variation in African American and White Signing
Research Article| November 01 2001 LEXICAL VARIATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE SIGNING CEIL LUCAS; CEIL LUCAS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ROBERT BAYLEY; ROBERT BAYLEY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google RUTH REED; RUTH REED Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ALYSSA WULF ALYSSA WULF Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 …
Variation in American Sign Language: The case of Deaf
Variation in sign languages has been a neglected area of research in sociolinguistics. This article, part of a large‐scale study of variation in American Sign Language (ASL) designed to redress that situation, examines variation in the form of the sign DEAF, which can be produced by moving the forefinger from ear to chin, from chin to ear, or by contacting the lower cheek. Multivariate analysis of more than 1600 tokens of DEAF extracted from soci…
Language Contact in the American Deaf Community
Language That Transcends Speech
ASL or contact signing: Issues of judgment
This article reports on one aspect of an ongoing study of language contact in the American deaf community. A kind of signing that results from the contact between American Sign Language (ASL) and English exhibits features of both languages. The ultimate goal of the study is a linguistic description of contact signing and a reexamination of claims that it is a pidgin. Ten dyads and two triads of native ASL signers (6 white dyads, 4 black dyads, 2 …
The Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community
The Sociologuistics of the Deaf Community
C. Lucas, Introduction. Variation and Language Contact C. Lucas and C. Valli, Language Contact in the American Deaf Community. R.E. Johnson and C. Erting, Ethnicity and Socialization in a Classroom for Deaf Children. J. Davis, Distinguishing Language Contact Phenomena in ASL Interpretation. A.J. Aramburo, Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community. Language Policy C.L. Ramsey, Language Planning in Deaf Education. E.A. Winston, Transliter…
Language Diversity and Classroom Discourse
A suit filed in 1977 on the behalf of preschool and elementary school children living in Ann Arbor, Michigan alleged that the children’s home and community language impeded their equal participation in instructional programs and that the school had not taken appropriate action to overcome the barrier. The focus of the case was on reading instruction, and the role of dialect in classroom discourse was not at issue. There are few studies, however, …
Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics
The sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well as complements the sociolinguistics of spoken languages. All of the key areas of sociolinguistics, such as multilingualism, language contact, variation, and language attitudes-are of immediate relevance to sign languages. At the same time, sign language researchers using a range of data sources and methods (e.g., sign language corpora, linguistic elicitation, and linguistic ethnography) hav…
Variation in American Sign Language: The case of Deaf
Variation in sign languages has been a neglected area of research in sociolinguistics. This article, part of a large‐scale study of variation in American Sign Language (ASL) designed to redress that situation, examines variation in the form of the sign DEAF, which can be produced by moving the forefinger from ear to chin, from chin to ear, or by contacting the lower cheek. Multivariate analysis of more than 1600 tokens of DEAF extracted from soci…
Lexical Variation in African American and White Signing
Research Article| November 01 2001 LEXICAL VARIATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE SIGNING CEIL LUCAS; CEIL LUCAS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ROBERT BAYLEY; ROBERT BAYLEY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google RUTH REED; RUTH REED Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ALYSSA WULF ALYSSA WULF Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 …
ASL or contact signing: Issues of judgment
This article reports on one aspect of an ongoing study of language contact in the American deaf community. A kind of signing that results from the contact between American Sign Language (ASL) and English exhibits features of both languages. The ultimate goal of the study is a linguistic description of contact signing and a reexamination of claims that it is a pidgin. Ten dyads and two triads of native ASL signers (6 white dyads, 4 black dyads, 2 …
Phonological variation in American Sign Language: The case of 1 handshape
This article examines variation in American Sign Language (ASL) signs produced with a 1 handshape, which include signs of nearly all grammatical classes. Multivariate analysis of more than 5,000 tokens, extracted from informal conversations among more than 200 signers in seven different regions of the United States, indicates that variation in the form of these signs is conditioned by multiple linguistic and social factors. Significant factor gro…
Language Diversity and Classroom Discourse
A suit filed in 1977 on the behalf of preschool and elementary school children living in Ann Arbor, Michigan alleged that the children’s home and community language impeded their equal participation in instructional programs and that the school had not taken appropriate action to overcome the barrier. The focus of the case was on reading instruction, and the role of dialect in classroom discourse was not at issue. There are few studies, however, …
Language Diversity and Classroom Discourse
A suit filed in 1977 on the behalf of preschool and elementary school children living in Ann Arbor, Michigan alleged that the children’s home and community language impeded their equal participation in instructional programs and that the school had not taken appropriate action to overcome the barrier. The focus of the case was on reading instruction, and the role of dialect in classroom discourse was not at issue. There are few studies, however, …
The Sociolinguistics of the Deaf Community
The Sociologuistics of the Deaf Community
C. Lucas, Introduction. Variation and Language Contact C. Lucas and C. Valli, Language Contact in the American Deaf Community. R.E. Johnson and C. Erting, Ethnicity and Socialization in a Classroom for Deaf Children. J. Davis, Distinguishing Language Contact Phenomena in ASL Interpretation. A.J. Aramburo, Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Black Deaf Community. Language Policy C.L. Ramsey, Language Planning in Deaf Education. E.A. Winston, Transliter…
Language That Transcends Speech
ASL or contact signing: Issues of judgment
This article reports on one aspect of an ongoing study of language contact in the American deaf community. A kind of signing that results from the contact between American Sign Language (ASL) and English exhibits features of both languages. The ultimate goal of the study is a linguistic description of contact signing and a reexamination of claims that it is a pidgin. Ten dyads and two triads of native ASL signers (6 white dyads, 4 black dyads, 2 …
Language Contact in the American Deaf Community
Variation in American Sign Language: The case of Deaf
Variation in sign languages has been a neglected area of research in sociolinguistics. This article, part of a large‐scale study of variation in American Sign Language (ASL) designed to redress that situation, examines variation in the form of the sign DEAF, which can be produced by moving the forefinger from ear to chin, from chin to ear, or by contacting the lower cheek. Multivariate analysis of more than 1600 tokens of DEAF extracted from soci…
Lexical Variation in African American and White Signing
Research Article| November 01 2001 LEXICAL VARIATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND WHITE SIGNING CEIL LUCAS; CEIL LUCAS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ROBERT BAYLEY; ROBERT BAYLEY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google RUTH REED; RUTH REED Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google ALYSSA WULF ALYSSA WULF Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2001) 76 …
Phonological variation in American Sign Language: The case of 1 handshape
This article examines variation in American Sign Language (ASL) signs produced with a 1 handshape, which include signs of nearly all grammatical classes. Multivariate analysis of more than 5,000 tokens, extracted from informal conversations among more than 200 signers in seven different regions of the United States, indicates that variation in the form of these signs is conditioned by multiple linguistic and social factors. Significant factor gro…
What's Your Sign for Pizza: An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language
What's Your Sign for Pizza derives from an extensive seven-year research project in which more than 200 Deaf ASL users representing different age, gender, and ethnic groups from seven different regions were videotaped sharing their signs for everyday vocabulary. This useful text and its accompanying CD begins with an explanation of the basic concepts of language and the structure of sign language, since sign variation abides by the rules governin…
Variation in Sign Languages: Recent Research on ASL and Beyond
This article summarizes early approaches to sociolinguistic research and the factors that condition variation in sign languages. The article then examines the methodological issues that arise in the study of sign languages before discussing recent research on variation in several different sign languages and dialects including Black ASL, Australian Sign Language, New Zealand Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language. This research shows that sign …
The Oxford handbook of sociolinguistics
"From its beginnings in the 1960s, sociolinguistics developed several different subfields with distinct methods and interests: the variationist tradition established by Labov, the anthropological tradition of Hymes, interactional sociolinguistics as developed by Gumperz, and the sociology of language represented by the work of Fishman. All of these areas have seen a great deal of growth in recent decades, and recent studies have led to a more bro…
What's Your Sign for Pizza?: An Introduction to Variation in American Sign Language
The intersection of African American English and Black American Sign Language
This article reports on the intersection of African American English (AAE) and a variety of American Sign Language (ASL) used by Black signers and known as Black ASL. Based on an extensive videotaped corpus collected from 96 African American signers in the southern United States, we explore the conditions that led to the development of a separate African American variety and document its features. Starting in 1869, 17 states and the District of C…
Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics
The sociolinguistics of sign languages parallels as well as complements the sociolinguistics of spoken languages. All of the key areas of sociolinguistics, such as multilingualism, language contact, variation, and language attitudes-are of immediate relevance to sign languages. At the same time, sign language researchers using a range of data sources and methods (e.g., sign language corpora, linguistic elicitation, and linguistic ethnography) hav…
Segregation and desegregation of the Southern schools for the deaf: The relationship between language policy and dialect development
Recent research has shown that a distinct variety of American Sign Language, known as Black ASL, developed in the segregated schools for deaf African Americans in the US South during the pre-civil rights era. Research has also shown that in some respects Black ASL is closer than most white varieties to the standard taught in ASL classes and found in ASL dictionaries. This article explores the circumstances that resulted in the creation of a disti…
Needed Research in American Sign Language Variation
Research Article| December 01 2023 6. Needed Research in American Sign Language Variation Ceil Lucas; Ceil Lucas ceil lucas is professor emerita of linguistics at Gallaudet University and former editor of the journal Sign Language Studies. She has conducted extensive sociolinguistic research on American Sign Language. Her books include Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language (with Robert Bay-ley and Clayton Valli; Gallaudet Univ. Pres…
Linguistics (14 works) · Sign language (13 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (12 works) · American Sign Language (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)