American Sign Language literature (ASL literature) is one of the most important shared cultural experiences in the American deaf community. Literary genres...

American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone...

Sign languages such as American Sign Language (ASL) are characterized by phonological processes analogous to those of oral languages. Phonemes serve the...

Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk, Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language, is an endangered sign language common...

American Sign Language (BASL) or Black Sign Variation (BSV) is a dialect of American Sign Language (ASL) used most commonly by deaf Black Americans in...

Baby sign language is the use of manual signing allowing infants and toddlers to communicate emotions, desires, and objects prior to spoken language development...

to legitimize ASL and introduce people to the richness of American Sign Language literature. Born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, Valli attended the Austine...

Chinese Sign Language (abbreviated CSL or ZGS; simplified Chinese: 中国手语; traditional Chinese: 中國手語; pinyin: Zhōngguó Shǒuyǔ) is the main sign language used...

language is unrelated to Nigerian Sign Language, which is based on American Sign Language. "Local" sign is considered inferior to Nigerian/American Sign...

Martha's Vineyard Sign Language (MVSL) was a village sign-language that was once widely used on the island of Martha's Vineyard, United States, from the...

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning, instead of spoken words. Sign languages...

member of the deaf community. He is an influential figure in American Sign Language literature as a storyteller and writer of deaf culture. He is known for...

hearing cultures in his appendices C and D of the 1965 Dictionary of American Sign Language. Members of the Deaf community tend to view deafness as a difference...

broader tradition of English-language literature, but also includes literature produced in languages other than English. The American Revolutionary Period (1775–1783)...

of Guatemala, formerly equated by most users and most literature equates with the sign language known by the acronymic abbreviations LENSEGUA, Lensegua...

Sign Language (IPSL) is the predominant sign language in the subcontinent of South Asia, used by at least 15 million deaf signers. As with many sign languages...

Stokoe's research on American Sign Language in the 1960s. Until the beginning of the 21st century, most studies of Italian Sign Language dealt with its vocabulary...

Afghan Sign Language (Dari: زبان اشاره افغانستانی) is the deaf sign language of Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, possibly with some presence in Kabul...

A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles (DASL) is the first American Sign language (ASL) dictionary written by William C. Stokoe...

make legal any sign language, enabling the use of American Sign Language, Quebec Sign Language (LSQ) and "First Nation Sign Language" (which could refer...

French literature (French: littérature française) generally speaking, is literature written in the French language, particularly by citizens of France;...

Nepalese Sign Language or Nepali Sign Language (Nepali: नेपाली साङ्केतिक भाषा, romanized: Nēpālī Sāṅkētika Bhāṣā) is the main sign language of Nepal. It...

The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

Catalan Sign Language (Catalan: Llengua de signes catalana, LSC; IPA: [ˈʎeŋɡwə ðə ˈsiŋnəs kətəˈlanə]) is a sign language used by around 18,000 people in...

Ukrainian Sign Language (USL) (Ukrainian: Українська жестова мова (УЖМ), romanized: Ukrayinska zhestova mova (UZhM)) is the sign language of the deaf...

of American Sign Language at home, so such data must come from other sources. While modern estimates indicate that American Sign Language was signed by...

the widely accepted view that the earlier layers of biblical literature reflect the language used in these kingdoms. Furthermore, the content of Hebrew...

poetry in historical depth, Renaissance and Baroque drama and American Sign Language literature. She also received the Phillip G. Hubbard Human Rights Award...

is also commonly called the at symbol, commercial at, or address sign. Most languages have their own name for the symbol. Although not included on the...

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African...