William Stokoe

William C. Stokoe, Jr. ( born July 21, 1919 in Lancaster, New Hampshire, † April 4, 2000 in Chevy Chase, Maryland) was an American linguist who was a professor at Gallaudet University for the deaf American Sign Language ( ASL) explored.

He showed in 1960 with his research that ASL are generally full-fledged languages ​​in particular, and sign languages ​​and marked with this discovery, the beginning of modern sign language research. In 1972 he founded the journal Sign Language Studies, which appears with brief interruptions until today.

Stokoe designed a written notation system ( the Stokoe notation) for sign language based on the Latin alphabet. It was used in addition to ASL is also used for other sign languages ​​.

Important publications

  • " Sign language structure: An outline of the visual communication systems of the American deaf. Studies in linguistics: Occasional Papers "(No. 8); Buffalo: Dept.. of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Buffalo; 1960
  • "Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles "; 1970; ISBN 0932130011
  • " Gesture and the nature of language" by David F. Armstrong and Sherman E. Wilcox; Cambridge 1995; ISBN 0521462134
  • " Language in hand: why sign came before speech"; Washington DC 2001; ISBN 156368103X
  • Linguist
  • University teachers ( Gallaudet University)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1919
  • Died in 2000
  • Man
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