Research over the past two decades has reported a robust relationship between relative social status and first-person singular (FPS) pronoun use in English. For my dissertation study, I wanted to test the replicability of those findings using American Sign Language (ASL) data that I collected for this purpose. In alignment with previous work, I hypothesized an inverse relationship between relative social status and FPS pronoun use in ASL: people with higher relative social status were expected to use proportionally fewer FPS pronouns. I chose an influential paper in the field as a methodological guide for replication and adapted its study design and data analysis approach to fit the context of my study, which included the signed modality and notions of social status specific to American deaf communities. During my investigations, however, I found that the chosen paper appeared to contain several inconsistencies. Moreover, I could not computationally reproduce some results even using the original English data shared by the authors. I refined their methods, applying the refinements to their English data as well as the ASL data I collected, and applied my adapted data analysis methodology to the original English data. My results in ASL hint at the possibility of an inverse relationship between relative social status and FPS pronoun use, but with insufficient evidence to allow me to conclude with confidence that such a relationship exists. FPS pronoun use in ASL may indicate something about attention, but it does not appear to indicate relative social status. Additionally, after a closer examination of the prior work done in English, I am skeptical that such an inverse relationship truly exists in either language. My work for this dissertation also highlights the critical importance of research reproducibility. While achieving reproducibility requires substantial effort, its role in advancing reliable scientific knowledge is indispensable. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]