Indexing Gay Identities in American Sign Language

Blau, Shane

doi:10.1353/sls.2017.0019

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“…Interestingly, he also comments on signing style (e.g., body movements, exaggerated use of facial expressions). As for ASL, Blau (2017) proposes that some Deaf gay men employ a signing style which includes frequent use of distal joints in sign articulation. also draw information from the conversations with the younger participants and from Van der Zwaag (2007).…”

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Pink sign: identity challenges, choices, and changes among elderly Deaf homosexuals in the Netherlands

Pfau¹,

Kampen²,

Harterink³

2021

Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People

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Pink sign: identity challenges, choices, and changes among elderly Deaf homosexuals in the Netherlands

Pfau¹,

Kampen²,

Harterink³

2021

Our Lives – Our Stories: Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People

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“…As early as the 1980s, references are made to 'a Black way of signing used by Black deaf people in their own cultural milieu' (Hairston & Smith, 1983, p.55), implying that variables tracked at the macro-level may be used as a resource to fashion ethnic identity. Another promising sign is Blau (2017), whose study on Deaf gay men in the San Francisco Bay Area finds that, the frequent use of distal joints in the articulation of signs is a socially-conditioned variable, and can index gay identity. His suggestion that distalisation is 'a component of a particular linguistic style' (Blau, 2017, p.36) is a significant moment for the study of SL variation.…”

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Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages

2020

APLV

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The volume of research on sign language (SL) variation has grown considerably in recent years but, as in other areas of SL research, there have been comparatively fewer reports from the Asia-Pacific region (Moriarty Harrelson et al., 2016). The region is already known for the extreme diversity of its (spoken) language ecologies (Cunningham, Ingram, & Sumbuk, 2006;Goebel, 2016;Volker, 2015), and it should come as no surprise that this diversity extends to the signed languages of the region.Taken together, the articles in this special issue draw attention to that diversity: perhaps contrary to popular belief, SL practices across the Asia-Pacific region can, and do differ in remarkable ways that strengthen our understanding of language variation. To that end, I begin by highlighting the distinctive sociolinguistic settings and practices covered by this special issue. This is followed by a discussion of macro-and micro-social variation, why this theme is so relevant for SL variation studies, and how it is taken up by the papers that follow. Sociolinguistic diversity in the sign languages of the Asia-Pacific regionSL research has been dominated overwhelmingly by what Mudd et al. (this issue) describe as 'deaf community sign languages' -also referred to as 'national' (Branson & Miller, 1997), 'urban' (Dolman, 1986 and 'macro-community' sign languages (Schembri, Fenlon, Cormier, & Johnston, 2018). More recently, a valuable contribution to the field has been made by studies of a different kind of SL (

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“…Yet, there has been a growing number of linguists who have considered issues of linguistic morality, or perhaps linguistic justice, in their own research to at least a marginal degree. These approaches have criticized what populations are centralized in research practices, attempted to integrate intersectional approaches to language into their methodology, or have considered the effects of oppressive institutions on identityconstruction through language (Charity Hudley et al 2018, Kiesling 2018, Barrett 2017, Blau 2017, Rickford and King 2016, Levon 2016, Kubanyiova 2008, Lippi-Green 1997. Nonetheless, these approaches to varying degrees have set consideration of moral obligation to the side or avoided the topic altogether.…”

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Transcriptivism: An ethical framework for modern linguistics

Kibbey

2019

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Descriptivism is a methodologically efficacious framework in the discipline of linguistics. However, it categorically fails to explicitly account for the moral responsibilities of linguists, as moral agents. In so doing, descriptivism has been used as a justification for indifference to instances and systems of linguistic violence, among other moral shortcomings. Specifically, many guidelines for descriptive ethics stipulate that a linguist “do no harm” but do not necessarily require the linguist to prevent harm or mitigate systems of violence. In this paper, I delineate an ethical framework, transcriptivism, which is distinct from research ethics and covers the line of philosophical inquiry related to questions of the moral agency of linguists and their moral responsibility. The potential for this new framework is demonstrated through a case study of conflicting Tennessee language ideologies regarding gender-neutral pronoun usage as well as an analysis of misgendering as an act of linguistic violence.

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Indexing Gay Identities in American Sign Language

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Pink sign: identity challenges, choices, and changes among elderly Deaf homosexuals in the Netherlands

Pink sign: identity challenges, choices, and changes among elderly Deaf homosexuals in the Netherlands

Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages

Transcriptivism: An ethical framework for modern linguistics

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