23.5079, Media: Standardizing Scientific Terms in ASL & BSL

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LINGUIST List: Vol-23-5079. Wed Dec 05 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.5079, Media: Standardizing Scientific Terms in ASL & BSL

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:19:57
From: Paul Chapin [pgchapin at gmail.com]
Subject: Standardizing Scientific Terms in ASL & BSL

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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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