Society for American Sign Language Journal
Volume 2, Number 2
Retrospective on Socially Impactful ASL/Deaf Studies Research and Scholarship
from 1960s to 2000s
Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction
Carrying the Torch for American Sign Language
Jody H. Cripps ............................................................................................................................ 5
Commentaries on Selected Papers
The Start of a Revolution for Deaf People's Language
Diane Lillo-Martin ...................................................................................................................... 7
Selected Paper #1:
Sign Language Structure: An Outline of the Visual Communication Systems
of the American Deaf
William C. Stokoe ............................................................................................................ 11
The World Woke Up to Audism
Erin Wilkinson ........................................................................................................................... 60
Selected Paper #2:
Audism
Tom Humphries ............................................................................................................... 63
A Vindication for ASL Literature
Samuel J. Supalla ....................................................................................................................... 68
Selected Paper #3:
The Nature of a Line in ASL Poetry
Clayton Valli ................................................................................................................... 72
The Cultural Ethos of ASL Poetry
Heidi Rose ................................................................................................................................... 80
Selected Paper #4:
“Black Hole: Color ASL”: A Personal Response
Karen Christie ................................................................................................................. 83
Unlocking the Curriculum: Thirty Years Later
Laura Blackburn ........................................................................................................................ 87
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