Chinese Sign Language
From AASL
Language name | Chinese Sign Language |
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Region | China, Malaysia |
Language name
Chinese Sign Language
(Zhongguo Shouyu)
Region
Malaysia (Peninsular)
Population of signers
20,040,000 deaf persons in China (2006 CDRF).
Language family
Dialects
Linguistic characteristics
History
Related sign languages
Related spoken languages
Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Zhong guo long ren xie hui ed. 2003.Zhong guo shou yu (Revised edition) Vol.I, II. Hua xia chu ban she: Beijing.
Yau, Shun-Chiu. 1997. The Chinese signs: Lexicon of the standart sign language for the deaf in China. Hong Kong, Paris : Ed. Lang. Croisés.
Zhong guo long ren xie hui ed. 1990.Zhong guo shou yu. Hua xia chu ban she: Beijing.
Bibliography
Chen, Xiao-hong. 2013. A Study of Simultaneous Structures in Chinese Sign Language. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lin, Hao. 2013. Pronouns in CSL (Shanghai). Poster presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Liu, Hongyu. 2013. A Study on the Aspectual Marking of Perfect in Chinese Sign Language. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Liu, Junfei, Zhaocui Sun and Yiming Yang. 2013. Event-related brain potentials during CSL processing: effects of syntactic and semantic violations. Presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Sagara, Keiko. 2013. Comparing the structures of number signs in Japanese Sign Language and Chinese Sign Language. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2013, 30 January – 2 February 2013. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Hua, Lv Hui, Wu Ling, Zhang Huiwen and Gao Li Qun. 2010. Experimental study on the relative clause structure in the Chinese Sign Presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).
Jamie, Berke. 2010. Deaf Community –China In : About.com.
Lan, Ni. 2010. The directionality of verbs in Chinese Sign Language Poster presentation at the Conference on Sign Linguistics and Deaf Education in Asia, 2010. (Hong Kong).
Marjorie K. M. Chan and Wang Xu. 2009. Modality Effects Revisited: Iconicity in Chinese Sign Language. In : Tai, James. H-Y. and Jane Tsay eds. Taiwan Sign Language and beyond. Chia-Yi, Taiwan: The Taiwan Institute for the Humanities, National Chung Cheng. 49-82.
Mudgett-DeCaro, Patricia A. and James J. DeCaro. 2009. Postsecondary education for Deaf people in China. In: Moores, Donald F. and Margery S. Miller eds. Deaf people around the world: Educational and social perspectives. Washington,DC : Gallaudet University Press. 33-45.
Su, Shiou-fen and James H-Y. Tai. 2009. Lexical Comparison of Signs from Taiwan, Chinese, Japanese, and American Sign Languages: Taking Iconicity into Account. In : Tai, James. H-Y. and Jane Tsay eds. Taiwan Sign Language and beyond. Chia-Yi, Taiwan: The Taiwan Institute for the Humanities, National Chung Cheng. 149-176.
Ann, Jean, Wayne H. Smith, and chiangsheng Yu. 2007. The Sign Language of Mainland China at the Ch'iying School in Taiwan. In : Quinto-Pozos, David ed. Sign Language in Contact. 235-258. Washington, DC. Gallaudet University Press.
Wang Xu, B.A. 2006. A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a New Model for Sign Language Comparison. A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University.
Gong, Qunhu. 2005. Shouyu wenti jianghua(About Chinese Sign Language). In : Shen, Yulin, A. Wu, and C. Chu eds. Shuangyu Longjiaoyu de Lilun yu Shijian.(Theories and practice of Deaf bilingual education.) Beijing : Huaxia. 39-60.
Yang, Jun Hui. 2004. The linguistic status of finger wiggling in Chinese Sign Language interrogatives. Paper presented at the Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 8, Barcelona, Spain.
Yeh, Elizabeth T. 2004. Chinese Sign Language In : ASLU.
Ann, Jean. 2003. The Chiying school in Taiwan: A foreigner's perspective. In: Monaghan, Leila, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura and Graham H. Turner eds. Many ways to be Deaf: International variation in Deaf communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 230-248. [Including information of Taiwan, Chinese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language and Taiwanese Sign Language ]
2000. Chinese Sign Language. In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 47.
Zhao, Xi-An. 1999. Zhongguo Shouyu yanjiu (Chinese Sign Language Studies). Beijing. Huaxia.
Yau, Shun-Chiu. 1991. La langue des signes chinoise. In:Cahiers de linguistique Asie Orientale 20:1. 138-142.
Yau, Shun-chiu. 1987. Sign languages : Chinese. In : Van Cleve, John V. (editor in chief), Gallaudet College eds. Gallaudet encyclopedia of deaf people and deafness. New York: McGraw-Hill. vol.3. 65-67.
Fok, Angela; Ursula Bellugi; and Diane Lillo-Martin. 1986. Remembering in Chinese signs and characters. In : H.S.R. Kao and R. Hoosain eds. Linguistics, Psychology, and the Chinese Language. Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong. 177-202.
Fu, Y. and Mei, C. 1986. Longren Shouyu Gailun. Shanghai : Xuelin.
Taylor, Allan R. 1956. The Shanghai gesture. In: Folklore Fellows' Communication No. 166. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica (Finnish Academy of Science and Letters).[Including information of Shanghai Sign Language]
Researchers
History of sign language research
Related pages
Links
Sign Languages in Asia: China (Data offered by Deaf informants in China; movies made by Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies)
Notes
East Asia | Amami O Shima Sign Language | Chinese Sign Language | Japanese Sign Language | Korean Sign Language : North Korea | Korean Sign Language : South Korea | Mongolian Sign Language |
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Southeast Asia | Bali Sign Language | Ban Khor Sign Language | Benkala Sign Language | Hill Country Sign Language | Indonesian Sign Language | Kuala Lumpur Sign Language | Laos Sign Language | Malaysian Sign Language | Original Bangkok Sign Language | Original Chiangmai Sign Language | Penang Sign Language | Philippine Sign Language | Selangor Sign Language | Singapore Sign Language | Thai Sign Language | Vietnamese Sign Language |
South Asia | Bengali Sign Language | Jhankot Sign Language | Jumla Sign Language | Indian Sign Language | Indo-Pakistan Sign Language | Naga Sign Language | Nepalese Sign Language | Sri Lankan Sign Language |
West Asia | Afghan Sign Language |
Areas and others | Hong Kong Sign Language | Macao Sign Language | Taiwanese Sign Language |