The Study of Signed Languages: Essays in Honor of William C. by David F. Armstrong, Michael A. Karchmer, John Vickrey Van
By David F. Armstrong, Michael A. Karchmer, John Vickrey Van Cleve
This article includes papers that have been provided at an October 1999 convention at Gallaudet college in honor of the eightieth birthday of William C. Stokoe, the most influential language students of the twentieth century. Twenty-two foreign experts give a contribution 12 chapters at the old con
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Tylor noted that “savage and halfcivilized races accompany their talk with expressive pantomime much 26 Douglas C. Baynton more than nations of higher culture,” indicating to him that “in the early stages of the development of language, . . ”43 The language used by deaf people was increasingly associated with “savages,” who themselves had lost the aura of “nobility” that earlier Romantics had attributed to them and were now seen merely as losers in the evolutionary struggle. ” Mallery suggested that “troglodyte” humans communicated “precisely as Indians or deaf-mutes” do today.
46 The significance of the common notion that gestures were more expressive of emotion, and speech more suited for the intellect, was now much changed. Unlike the manualists who had believed that it was the emotions that set humans apart from the animals, to the oralist generation it was the ability to reason, and to express reason through speech, that distinguished the human species from all others. If reason was distinctly human, emotion came to be seen as a mere holdover from our animalistic or primitive past, part of our “natural” inheritance.
The manualist description of sign language as natural arose, then, not from any transparent iconicity in the language as typically used, but from a belief that, unlike words, most signs retained essential ties with their iconic origins. Sign language syntax was also thought to be more natural than that of spoken languages. ”15 20 Douglas C. Baynton As Benjamin Talbot, superintendent of the Iowa school, explained, the “order of signs . . ” For example, unlike English, in sign language the adjective usually followed the noun.