WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Ronnie Wilbur, a professor in Purdue’s Department of Linguistics in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Liberal Arts, has been named a fellow of the Linguistic ...

Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) ...

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Chosun University announced on the 7th that it will establish the 'Department of Sign Language Linguistics,' operated with two tracks: ...

Sign languages are rich, complex, and dynamic systems of communication that challenge conventional understandings of language, cognition, and culture. They are central to deaf communities worldwide, ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

Joseph Hill, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, believes he is the only black, deaf, Ph.D. linguist in America, and maybe in the world. “Just me,” he told an ...

Languages occur because people have the need to communicate, but rarely does the opportunity arise to document the development of a young language. Israeli Sign Language (ISL) began in the 1930s and ...