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Peer reviewedWilcox, Sherman – Sign Language Studies, 1984
Describes the details of a semantic extension of the American Sign Language lexical item "stuck," as it was used during the 1981-82 school year at a U.S. high school. Sees this semantic extension as indicative of poor communication between teacher and students at the high school. (SED)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Cultural Isolation, Culture Conflict
Peer reviewedMacken, Elizabeth; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1995
This study seeks to understand American Sign Language (ASL) as heterogeneous communication and to use it as a model for developing in other modalities alternative heterogeneous communication systems with the same advantages. (26 references) (CK)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Charts, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Peer reviewedRudser, Steven Fritsch – Sign Language Studies, 1986
The performance of two sign language interpreters in interpreting and transliterating two English texts in 1973 and again in 1985 was analyzed. Both interpreters significantly increased their use of four linguistic features of American Sign Language: classifiers; rhetorical questions; noun-adjective word order; and nonmanual negation. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Classification, Deaf Interpreting
