The tipping point

On the use of signs from American Sign Language in International Sign

Bibliographic Data

ID5000215
AuthorsA Kusters (0000-0001-5228-7363, Heriot-Watt University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume75
Pages51-68
Publication date2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage & Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0271-5309 • E-ISSN: 1873-3395
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.langcom.2020.06.004
OpenAlexW3087157425
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited21

This paper approaches International Sign (IS) as both a translingual practice and a contact language which is subject to language contact with American Sign Language (ASL). The perceived overuse of ASL in IS is often judged as counterproductive for IS to flourish independently from ASL. The desire for IS and ASL to be sufficiently different leads to a desire for setting and maintaining linguistic boundaries between both. Therefore, discourses about the maintenance and vitality of IS as a collaborative translingual practice can take the form of linguistic prescriptivism aiming to curtail ASL use in IS

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