Younger Deaf People's Attitudes Toward American Sign Language Structure
Date
2021
Authors
Contributor
Advisor
Department
Instructor
Depositor
Speaker
Researcher
Consultant
Interviewer
Narrator
Transcriber
Annotator
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Volume
Number/Issue
Starting Page
Ending Page
Alternative Title
Abstract
This dissertation presents the judgment of what is ‘correct’ American Sign Language(ASL) structure by the younger generation, using the word order strategies that were used in
older generation signers, as well as younger generation attitudes towards the ideology of ASL
being a SOV language. This study used an on-line survey to evaluate 83 participants in the
United States and structured interviews were conducted with 10 participants. The analysis
showed the younger generation accepted various ASL structures such as: SOV, SVO, the use of
adpositions, unspecified/specified verbs and classifiers. Even though the younger generation
knows the ideology that ASL is an SOV language, some of them could not tell the difference
between SOV and SVO structures. It was concluded that the younger generation has the
ideology of ASL being a SOV language, however, the real world ASL usage did not align with
the ideology.
Description
Keywords
Linguistics, Language, Education, American Sign Language (ASL), Deaf, Deaf education, deaf studies, sign language studies, Ideology and Attitudes, Sign Language, Sign Linguistics, Word Order
Citation
Extent
175 pages
Format
Geographic Location
Time Period
Related To
Related To (URI)
Table of Contents
Rights
All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.
Rights Holder
Local Contexts
Collections
Email libraryada-l@lists.hawaii.edu if you need this content in ADA-compliant format.