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Peer reviewedCharrow, Veda R.; Wilbur, Ronnie B. – Theory Into Practice, 1975
This paper focuses upon the deaf as an American Sign Language-using community, out of the English-using mainstream. (RC)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Finger Spelling
Download full textStokoe, William C., Jr. – 1969
Charles A. Ferguson's concept of "diglossia" (1959, 1964) is used in analyzing sign language. As in Haitian Creole or Swiss German, "two or more varieties" of sign language are "used by the same speakers under different conditions"--these are here called "High" (H) sign language and "Low" (L) sign language. H sign language is formally taught…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deafness, Diglossia, English
