MIM: deaf/Deaf-distinction: origin?

[Tom Humphries]

On Jan 7, 2008 12:11 PM, Gwenwr Des <proudofusherbsl at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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Tom Humphries
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Associate Professor
Education Studies
&
Associate Professor
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
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