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Direct linkYoel, Judith – Sign Language Studies, 2022
Maritime Sign Language (MSL) is a Canadian, minority sign language that originally stems from British Sign Language (BSL). Currently used by elderly Deaf people in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland (and Labrador), it is a moribund language, having undergone language shift to American Sign Language (ASL). MSL is…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Language Variation, Older Adults, Deafness
Rothe, Andreas R. – Sign Language Studies, 2022
This article follows the often difficult educational path of deaf children in Tanzania, from homes with very little communication to cherished times at deaf (units of) primary schools, through secondary school, which had to be "endured" only, up to work life. It describes challenges and coping strategies, many of which are connected to…
Descriptors: Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Self Concept, Foreign Countries
Rosen, Russell S. – Sign Language Studies, 2018
When learning a third language (L3), learners, according to researchers, generally rely on a variety of resources, such as their L1 (first language), L2 (second language), and/or their current knowledge of the L3. Although studies have identified a number of factors that may influence a learner's choice of the source of transfer, these works were…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, American Sign Language, Verbs, Motion
Schmaling, Constanze H. – Sign Language Studies, 2012
This article gives an overview of dictionaries of African sign languages that have been published to date most of which have not been widely distributed. After an introduction into the field of sign language lexicography and a discussion of some of the obstacles that authors of sign language dictionaries face in general, I will show problems…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Lexicography, Dictionaries, Foreign Countries
Healy, Christina – Sign Language Studies, 2011
Mongolian Sign Language (MSL) is a visual-gestural language that developed from multiple languages interacting as a result of both geographic proximity and political relations and of the natural development of a communication system by deaf community members. Similar to the phonological systems of other signed languages, MSL combines handshapes,…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphemes, Sign Language, Deafness
van Gils, Gardy; van den Bogaerde, Beppie; de Lange, Rob – Sign Language Studies, 2010
In this article we look at the use of ICST in two multilingual and deaf/hearing teams in an educational and research environment. We describe how job demands and job control (decision authority level) contribute to feelings of stress among the deaf and the hearing employees. We find that most information is received by all of the team members in…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Employees, Deafness, Multilingualism
