Black southern signing

Recent research in American Sign Language (ASL) has concentrated on demonstrating that ASL, a language channelled through the manual-visual modality, has linguistic properties similar to those of oral languages, except for physical sound. The absence of sound, however, really presents no theoretical problem since ASL has a formational level of structure analogous to, but not dependent on, the phonological component of oral languages (Stokoe 1960; Battison 1974).This paper will discuss a relatively new area of research in Sign linguistics, ethnic-social variation. Because of attitudes and educational policy, Black signers in the South have developed different varieties of signing from Whites. Concentrating primarily on Black signs in Georgia, this paper will discuss some of the lexical and formational (phonological) variation observed in old and young Black signers. (Sociolinguistic variation; sign languages; linguistic change; minority group languages

American Sign Language · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Manually coded language · Modality (human–computer interaction) · Physics · Sign (mathematics) · Sign language · Sociolinguistics of sign languages · Sociology · Sound change · Variation (astronomy) · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Hearing Impairment and Communication · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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