Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects

Jones, Trey; Alatis, James E.; Straehle, Carolyn A.; Ronkin, Maggie; Gallenberger, Brent

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Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language Variation: Current Trends and Future Prospects

Trey Jones¹,

James E. Alatis²,

Carolyn A. Straehle³

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Writing Signed Languages: What For? What Form?

Grushkin¹

2017

American Annals of the Deaf

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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.

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Writing Signed Languages: What For? What Form?

Grushkin¹

2017

American Annals of the Deaf

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Written Forms of Signed languages: A Route to Literacy for Deaf Learners?

Mayer¹

2017

American Annals of the Deaf

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While there have been attempts to develop written systems for signed languages, none have been widely used or adopted. In his article in an American Annals of the Deaf special issue that also includes the present article, Grushkin makes a case not only for why, but how efforts should be renewed to develop a written signed language, suggesting that increased written-English competence will be a consequence of increased competence in written and signed American Sign Language, with literacy-related skills transferring across languages. The present author responds in terms of what is known about linguistic interdependence in spoken-language contexts and in light of the evidence base from hearing bilinguals. She argues that, given the field's current context, no compelling rationale exists for pursuing this route to literacy for deaf learners, and that other routes are more workable from pragmatic, theoretical, and evidence-based perspectives.

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