names of signed languages

[Richard Arnold]

Augus,

You're a genuis!!!...well sort of...:>)  I think that is one good starting
place. This discussion about naming Sign Languages is quite critical, and a
thorough consensus is needed. Perhaps one day a conference on this would be
needed to straighten things out. Boy, what a headache.... This could be one
good Ph.D. or MA research topic for someone out there.

Richard A.

In a message dated 02/11/99 7:30:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, grvsmth at UNM.EDU
writes:

> This is a good point, Ulrike, but we don't need to borrow the word
>  for "sign."  I'm sure the signs for "India" and "Pakistan" are different
>  from the DGS sign for "Germany" and the Thai Sign Language sign for
>  "Thailand."  In spoken languages, we already have names for all the
>  countries, so we can borrow the country names from their respective signed
>  languages to refer to the languages without worrying about ambiguity.  How
>  does that sound to people?