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Direct linkKate Huddlestone; Andries van Niekerk; Anne Baker – Sign Language Studies, 2025
Variation occurs in sign languages, just as in spoken languages. Lexical variation is very common and has been related to individual schools for the deaf, so-called "schoolization," rather than only to region or other common sociolinguistic factors, such as gender, social class, etc. (Baker et al. 2016). This study investigates lexical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Language Variation
Lucas, Ceil; Bayley, Robert; Hill, Joseph C.; McCaskill, Carolyn – Sign Language Studies, 2023
Recent research has shown that a distinct variety of American Sign Language, known as Black ASL, developed in the segregated schools for deaf African Americans in the US South during the pre-civil rights era. Research has also shown that in some respects Black ASL is closer than most white varieties to the standard taught in ASL classes and found…
Descriptors: Deafness, American Sign Language, Sign Language, African Americans
Hill, Joseph C. – Sign Language Studies, 2017
The article discusses the importance of sociohistorical context which is the foundation of variation studies in sociolinguistics. The studies on variation in spoken and signed languages are reviewed with the discussion of geographical and social aspects which are treated as external factors in the formation and maintenance of dialects and those…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Black Dialects, Sign Language
McKee, Rachel; McKee, David – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Lexicographers, teachers and interpreters of New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) are challenged by the degree of lexical variation that exists in this young language. For instance, most numerals between one and twenty have two or more variants in common use (McKee, McKee, and Major 2008), a situation that contrasts with most established spoken…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Phonology, Syntax, Dictionaries
McKee, David; McKee, Rachel; Major, George – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Lexical variation abounds in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) and is commonly associated with the introduction of the Australasian Signed English lexicon into Deaf education in 1979, before NZSL was acknowledged as a language. Evidence from dictionaries of NZSL collated between 1986 and 1997 reveal many coexisting variants for the numbers from one…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Variation, Deafness
Schembri, Adam; Johnston, Trevor – Sign Language Studies, 2007
This article presents the results from a preliminary investigation into the use of fingerspelling in Australian Sign Language (Auslan), drawing on data collected as part of the Sociolinguistic Variation in Australian Sign Language project (Schembri and Johnston 2004; Schembri, Johnston, and Goswell in press). This major project is a replication in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics, American Sign Language, Deafness
