MIM: deaf/Deaf-distinction: origin?

[Gwenwr Des]

Tom,

Many thanks for your e-mail and I do very much
appreciate your correction here.

As the distinction had been made due to the discovery
in Woodwards (1972) sociolinguistic works placing deaf
people into two groups based on the language, it must
be very difficult to track down to how this leads to
the labels of d and D based on two groups of deaf
people....?

Perhaps anyone could shed a light on this, I'd be
extremely interested to know the outcome...

Kind regards

Des
--- Tom Humphries <thumphries at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Sorry, Des, Carol and I didn't politicize anything. 
> We didnt' even start
> it, the distinction was made before us, we merely
> copied it.   Others may
> have politicized it but we certainly haven't.  It
> may be hard to find the
> first reference to it because there were a lot of
> not well circulated papers
> back then (proceedings, unpublished papers,
> presentation papers, etc.)  This
> was in the days when getting papers on the subject
> of deaf culture published
> was not so easy (trust me).
> 
> 
> 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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