LINGUIST List 23.5079
Wed Dec 05 2012
Media: Standardizing Scientific Terms in ASL & BSL
Editor for this issue: Anna Belew
<annalinguistlist.org>
Date: 04-Dec-2012
From: Paul Chapin <pgchapin
gmail.com>
Subject: Standardizing Scientific Terms in ASL & BSL
E-mail this message to a friend The New York Times online has published an article (with interactive graphics) about systematic efforts to develop common sets of signs for scientific terminology in American Sign Language and British Sign Language. See
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/sign-language-researchers-broaden-science-lexicon.html?_r=0 Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics Lexicography Translation
Subject Language(s): American Sign Language (ase) British Sign Language (bfi)
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