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Valerie Sutton Date: Sun Oct 24, 1999 8:31 pm Subject: New York Times Article on Nicaragua Sign Language | |
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Sunday, October 24, 1999 Hello SignWriting List! Today an article was published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, about the work done by Judy and James Shepard-Kegl, in Nicaragua. The Kegls are members of our SignWriting List, and have used SignWriting with their students in Nicaragua for years, translating stories and writing dictionaries in Nicaraguan Sign Language. The article, entitled "A Linguistic Big Bang", is about the linguistic aspects of the work. SignWriting is shown in several photos, written on the blackboard behind the students...and the article mentions the students "reading Nicaraguan Sign Language". To all of our disappointment, the editors cut the part submitted by the Kegls (to the Times writer), about SignWriting, so the name of the system never appears in the entire article...on the other hand, the pictures show the system, and I guess a "picture is worth a thousand words"...anyone who knows the subject matter can see that is SignWriting on the blackboard! Meanwhile, the story about the "evolving-nature" of Nicaraguan Sign Language is fascinating. If you would like to read the article, you will find it in today's Sunday edition. There is a little magazine that is inserted inside the paper, called the New York Times Magazine. The article is on page 84. Or you can access it on the web, through the New York Times web site. Here is the information: "A Linguistic Big Bang" For the first time in history, scholars are witnessing the birth of a language ó a complex sign system being created by deaf children in Nicaragua. By LAWRENCE OSBORNE Photographs by SUSAN MEISELAS , The New York Times Magazine, October 24, 1999: https://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19991024mag-sign-language.html " Have a wonderful Sunday, everyone!! Val ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWritingSite...Lessons Online https://www.SignWriting.org SignBankSite...Databases Online https://www.SignBank.org Deaf Action Committee For SignWriting Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA |
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