Wednesday, June 10, 2009

To Name the World as "ASL World"

A discussion vlog: Carl Schroeder quotes from Paulo Freire's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed: "To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it." Naming the world as "ASL world" requires the lexicon and, as one of my ASL Studies students writes: "The lexicon is in the soil of the garden of language." ASL world is about our language and culture; Deaf world is pathological as the world sees it.

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