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George, Johnny – Sign Language Studies, 2022
This work categorizes Japanese Sign Language (JSL) toponyms, or place names, and examines factors that potentially affect their structure. Exonyms, influenced by the source Japanese name, and endonyms, independent JSL names, contrast structurally in that exonyms tend to emerge as compounds while endonyms conform more closely to canonical…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Naming, Japanese, Deafness