SIGN LANGUAGE WORK - World Federation of the Deaf

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THE FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF • “Need to standardize the national sign language.” Whose need? • A standard variety of a language is usually promoted in education and in the media. Existence of a standard form might be used as a condition for official recognition of the language or for its use as a language of instruction • It seems that the impetus to standardize sign languages usually come from the desire of hearing persons, not Deaf persons, e.g. in their learning process. • Teachers and interpreters might think that there should only be one sign for each word. This opinion reveals ignorance about sign languages • The standardization desire is focused on individual signs • Usually Deaf signers have no problem understanding each other, even if they use different signs.
THE FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF • There is never a one-to-one relationship between languages. A word can have many sign equivalents and a sign can have many word equivalents • Each language is tied to a specific culture, sign languages reflect Deaf culture. There is a lot of signs that do not have an one word equivalent, but must be translated by using a longer expression • The decision of whether to standardize a sign language or not, is to be made by the language users themselves • Variation is a natural part of language
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