Research on Signed/Spoken Language Code switching

[Des Power]

How about Auslan? :-)

Des

Emeritus Professor Des Power, AM
Centre for Applied Studies in Deafness
Griffith University
Queensland, Australia



On 04/09/2007, at 9:25 PM, slling-l-bounces at majordomo.valenciacc.edu  
wrote:

> The trouble with abbreviations derived from the spoken language of the
> country where the SL is used is that they are opaque outside of  
> that country
> or spoken language. BII, NGT, LSF... They have little or no  
> mnemonic value.
>
> I don't see that it's necessary to stick with purely initial three- 
> letter
> abbreviations just because three letters were enough to distinguish  
> the
> first few SLs that were scientifically studied: ASL, BSL (both from
> English-speaking countries), FSL, and OFSL (abbreviated in English  
> by the
> English-speaking linguists).
>
> What would be so bad about IndSL, IndonSL, IrSL, IsrSL, and so on?
>
> m a m
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