[EDLING:587] Concerning sign language

[Mar at GSE.UPENN.EDU]

The main error is not considering the deaf community as a community
which has its own culture. Their language, their psychological
behaviour
, their way of life, provides them access to an specific
culture group, despite this group of people lives within the rest of the
hearing society. Their visual experience inside the world gives them
this culture I am talking about. Many universities from other
countries (like mine, Spain), for example, at the University of
Alicante, courses and subjets of Spanish language of signs are
distributed, since it is considered like one more language of Spain. It
is not still an official language, although this question is going to be
modified soon.
Most important, sign languages must have the same consideration that oral
languages. They are just languages and they can contribute so much to knowledge
and to the general study of the languages as you can see in many investigations
made anywhere all over the world.


Rubén Nogueira
Mar Galindo
University of Alicante
Spain


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