Chris Johnson was 30 years old the first time he was introduced to American Sign Language while attending graduate school in Washington D.C. at Gallaudet University, a university for the deaf and hard ...

Gemma King receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In Dune’s sandswept colonialist dystopia of the distant future, power is a force best handled – and transferred – surreptitiously. In ...

Four linguistic scholars discussed race, ethnicity, language and resistance at a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Cogut Institute ...

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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

Across all performative mediums, today’s Deaf creatives are celebrating, protecting and sharing their distinct mode of communication. By Jake Nevins LAST AUGUST, several months into lockdown, Raven ...

AT THE paediatrician’s clinic, a nurse told Viorica Marian, a native speaker of Romanian, to use only English with her US-born daughter. Speaking another language would “confuse” the child and hurt ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...