Moments of Permanence - [redacted title]

From: lauredhel Date: June 7th, 2009 02:30 pm (UTC) (Link)

"Pictograms"? It is components. Handshape, location, movement, prosody, and various other aspects that can be correlated fairly closely with the phonological features of spoken language. There has been a large amount of research done on the phonology of signed language, which has been going on for decades. There is published work on it, journals, books, etc. There are university courses specifically about sign language phonology.

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From: lady_ganesh Date: June 7th, 2009 02:33 pm (UTC) (Link)

That's helpful to know-- can you check my comment above and help correct me?

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From: lauredhel Date: June 7th, 2009 02:39 pm (UTC) (Link)

You could start with Google or Wikipedia or a bookstore or something. I suggest ultra basic 101 type reading on both the mechanical linguistics of signed languages, and on the sociolinguistics of signed language and Deaf history, especially the history of what "well-meaning" clueless hearing folk have done to Deaf people and their languages.

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From: lady_ganesh Date: June 7th, 2009 02:40 pm (UTC) (Link)

Apologies.

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From: lauredhel Date: June 7th, 2009 02:40 pm (UTC) (Link)

Ah, and I see trouble has found her way here while I was writing this. Seriously, I am biting my tongue SO HARD here. Go read something.

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From: lady_ganesh Date: June 7th, 2009 03:00 pm (UTC) (Link)

Some of the things I said were badly and probably hurtfully phrased (now I've had my shower my brain is working better) and some bits I was just wrong on. I'm going to bow out, because I think any other participation on my part is going to boil down to a lot of mansplaining and nothing of value, but I want to apologize for any hurt I caused.

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From: trouble Date: June 7th, 2009 02:41 pm (UTC) (Link)

Frankly, most of the research has been done in the U.S. Plugging "deaf" into your local library should give you a large number of books to start out with. Heck, the original "Sign Language is a Real Language" is available free on line.

... Which I can't find right now, and my reference material isn't right next to me, but Stokoe Notation on that Very Important Academic Resource of Wikipedia *cough* has some notes.

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