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Amanda Reaza
Cunningham
English Literature
11 February 2019
Annotated Bibliography
Berke, Jamie “Profile or Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet” veryhealth.com 20, February 2018
https://www.verywellhealth.com/people-thomas-h-gallaudet-1046555
In Berkes paper it gives an idea or who created Sign Language and who was the first deaf
person that he had met. After reading up on Berkes and page it shows that Hopkins-Gallaudet
had health problems and had met Alice Cogswell who was deaf and learned Sign language from
her and went on to teach it in other places with Laurent Clerc who was also deaf and helped him
with his teachings. Knowing where sign language had come from and the oldest knowing deaf
person alive is all so intriguing and knowing this for my capstone can help me appreciate the
language itself.
Brookes, Richard “A Guide to the different types of Sign Language around the world”
https://www.k-international.com/blog/different-types-of-sign-language-around-the-world/
In this article Brookes proves the different types of Sign Language and how it is used differently
based of the where you are in the world. After reading Brookes different subtopics of the
different types of Sign Language and how it have become its official deaf language. Sign
Language is a depicturized thing a long with deaf people in general because people look down
upon the deaf community because of their lack of hearing opportunities and knowing that there
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are large amount of deaf people around the world should be acknowledged, as of today there are
138-300 different types of sign language and approximately 466 million deaf people that are
counted for. This article provides examples of how different sign language is all over the world
and how different or similar certain signs are. For my capstone knowing the history behind
American Sign Language and where it had come from is very important to get more a general
http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/Ling450ch/reports/sign-language.html
In this paper Larson says the history of what history is and what it is based off of. After reading
Larsons paper that there are various theories of how or why it started with scientific evidence to
support various views. It still remains that no one really knows where sign had originated, sign
could quite possibly be older than the humankind. The question of who invented sign language is
still a mystery and most people believe that the deaf community had created it themselves with
gestures and movements in order to communicate. For my capstone reading Larson's page had
given me the idea of sign language and possibly what it can be based off of.
Okrent, Arika “This is what American Sign Language 100 years ago” theweek.com 25 April
2015
https://theweek.com/articles/549445/what-american-sign-language-looked-like-100-years-ago
In this article, Okrent expresses the idea of how American Sign Language was first brought up
and how some people reacted to it. After reviewing Okrent’s work and thoroughly examining her
point that ASL had become a rich and full language. When ASL had first entered the world most
people were a little taken aback when everyone actually started using it. Sign language had been
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pushed so effectively out of the realm of education that the deaf community feared for its
survival and wanted to do something about it. This article provides background information on
how American Sign Language had been brought up and how it was used in many different ways
with many different types of people. I want to learn ASL and knowing it origin is a great way to
start.