WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Ronnie Wilbur, a professor in Purdue’s Department of Linguistics in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Liberal Arts, has been named a fellow of the Linguistic ...

Two years after the program’s inception, this semester marks the first time that students have been able to fulfill the University’s language requirement using the American Sign Language (ASL) ...

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Chosun University announced on the 7th that it will establish the 'Department of Sign Language Linguistics,' operated with two tracks: ...

A new study of the educational needs of students who are native users of American Sign Language (ASL) shows glaring disparities in their treatment by the U.S Department of Education. A new study of ...

Joseph Hill, an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, believes he is the only black, deaf, Ph.D. linguist in America, and maybe in the world. “Just me,” he told an ...

In any community, language is the most important method for communicating with others. However, for a deaf person like me, it is difficult to connect with many people and speak in the same ways. This ...

University of Wisconsin American Sign Language students have begun mobilizing to protect the number of ASL courses offered, which have been reduced to accommodate university budget cuts. Students of ...

Languages occur because people have the need to communicate, but rarely does the opportunity arise to document the development of a young language. Israeli Sign Language (ISL) began in the 1930s and ...