Raising the status of the African languages to that of official languages in South Africa post-1994 led to an explosion of translation and interpreting work in local and foreign languages.
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Articles on Sign language
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Yes, sign language has grammar – and it goes way beyond what you do with your hands.
This Masters degree sets a precedent in South Africa and gives universities that want to be truly inclusive a lot to think about.
A recent Australian high court case has highlighted a problem that also exists in UK and Ireland.
Humans have invented many technologies to survive better – spears, pots, calculators, even language. With language, however, the raw material used to fashion the technology is the human body itself.
Think it’s stressful visiting a police station? Try doing it when you can’t hear.
One South African student’s experience with live captioning technology may be the start of an exciting change for deaf university students who do not use sign language.
What can a bunch of people grunting in a lab teach us about our capacity to create language systems? A lot about the gesture- or vocalization-based origins of language.
The world’s leading humanoid robot, ASIMO, has recently learnt sign language. The news of this breakthrough came just as I completed Level 1 of British Sign Language (I dare say it took me longer to master…
What is sign language? Before we answer that question, it might be useful to first consider what a “language” is. Spoken languages are naturally developed complex systems that use a set of conventionalised…
Research has shown that people without any familiarity with American Sign Language (ASL) can quickly recognise its key structures…
Research needs to be presented carefully to not mislead the community. It’s worrying when information is taken out of context by the media for a news item that may only run for one day. But this is exactly…
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Reader in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in English Linguistics, University of Graz
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Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University
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PhD Student, Head of Disability Unit, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer South African Sign Language, University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Darlithydd mewn Polisi Cymdeithasol (Cyfrwng Cymraeg)/ Lecturer in Social Policy (Welsh medium), Bangor University
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Heriot-Watt University
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Senior Lecturer in the History of the British Empire, University of Sheffield
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PhD Candidate in Computer Vision, University of Surrey
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The Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College, University of Chicago
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Senior lecturer, Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Sign Linguistics, UCL Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Waikato
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Director:Language Centre, Stellenbosch University
