<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 12:11 PM, Gwenwr Des <<a href="mailto:proudofusherbsl@yahoo.co.uk">proudofusherbsl@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Hello Mim,<br><br>Hope you are keeping well.<br><br>While you are correct in saying that the Woodwards<br>(1972) paper did not give a clear explanation on the<br>distinction between d and D. However Woodwards'<br>sociolinguistic study placed deaf people into two

groups based on the language that they use - American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken English. This purpose was for further research on the educational field looking at the communication methods for deaf pupils.

Then Padden and Humphries (1975) politicised Woodwards (1972) works by labelling a group of deaf people using ASL with the letter 'D', and the other using spoken English with small letter 'd'.

<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Cheers<br>Des<br>--- Mim Vermeerbergen <<a href="mailto:mvermeer@vub.ac.be">mvermeer@vub.ac.be</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Dear colleagues,<br>><br>> It is often reported that the convention to

<br>> distinguish between deaf<br>> (with lower case d) and Deaf with upper case started<br>> with Woodward's<br>> paper "Implications for Sociolinguistic Research<br>> among the<br>> Deaf" (published in Sign Language Studies, Volume 1,

<br>> in 1972).<br>> However, when consulting this paper, I found that<br>> there was no sign<br>> of the distinction.<br>><br>> I assume that the source of the distinction might be<br>> another<br>> publication by Woodward (possibly his 1973

<br>> dissertation or his 1982<br>> "How You Gonna Get to Heaven....." book) but I<br>> haven't been able to<br>> confirm this.<br>><br>> Therefor this message: does someone maybe know where

<br>> and when the<br>> deaf/Deaf convention started?<br>> Many thanks in advance.<br>><br>> Kind regards,<br>><br>> Myriam Vermeerbergen<br>> <a href="mailto:mvermeer@mac.com">mvermeer@mac.com</a>

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