MIM: deaf/Deaf-distinction: origin?

[Gwenwr Des]

Hello Mim,

Hope you are keeping well.

While you are correct in saying that the Woodwards
(1972) paper did not give a clear explanation on the
distinction between d and D. However Woodwards'
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'.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Des
--- Mim Vermeerbergen <mvermeer at vub.ac.be> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> It is often reported that the convention to
> distinguish between deaf  
> (with lower case d) and Deaf with upper case started
> with Woodward's  
> paper "Implications for Sociolinguistic Research
> among the  
> Deaf" (published in Sign Language Studies, Volume 1,
> in 1972).  
> However, when consulting this paper, I found that
> there was no sign  
> of the distinction.
> 
> I assume that the source of the distinction might be
> another  
> publication by Woodward (possibly his 1973
> dissertation or his 1982  
> "How You Gonna Get to Heaven....." book) but I
> haven't been able to  
> confirm this.
> 
> Therefor this message: does someone maybe know where
> and when the  
> deaf/Deaf convention started?
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Myriam Vermeerbergen
> mvermeer at mac.com
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