Japanese Sign Language
From AASL
| Language name | Japanese Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Region | Japan |
Language name
Japanese Sign Language
(JSL)
Region
Population of signers
317,000 (VanCleve 1986).
Language family
Dialects
Linguistic characteristics
History
Related sign languages
Related spoken languages
Institutes, associations and universities
Dictionaries
Nihon Shuwa Kenkyusho ed. 1997. Nihongo-Shuwa jiten. Tokyo: Zen Nihon Roa Renmei. (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies ed. 1997. Japanese-Sign language dictionary. Tokyo: Japanese Federation of the Deaf. [In Japanese])
Japanese Federation of the Deaf. Institute for Sign Language Studies(Editorial Board: Honna, Nobuyuki, Mihoko Kato, Michiko Tsuchiya and Kunihiko Sadahiro) eds. 1991. An English dictionary of basic Japanese signs. Tokyo: Japanese Federation of the Deaf.
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, Kuala Lumpur YMCA, Osaka YMCA eds. 1989. Speaking with Signs.(Fourth Version) Osaka: Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary of[ [Hong Kong Sign Language]], Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Languageand Malaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
Chinese YMCA Hong Kong, Taipei YMCA, The Society for the Deaf in Selangor and the Federal Teritory, Osaka YMCA eds. 1984. Speaking with Signs.(Third Version) Osaka: OsakaYMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language andMalaysian Sign Language. with a page of fingerspelling of Korean Sign Language ]
1980. Speaking with Signs.(Second Version) Osaka:Osaka YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
1979. Speaking with Signs.(Book One) Hong Kong:Chinese YMCA. [A dictionary of Hong Kong Sign Language,Taiwanese Sign Language andJapanese Sign Language ]
Bibliography
Mori, Soya. 2011. Pluralization: An Alternative to Existing Hegemony in JSL. In: Mathur, Gaurav and Donna Jo Napoli eds. Deaf around the World, The Impact of Language. 333-338. New York, USA. Oxford University Press.
Nakamura, Karen. 2011. The Language Politics of Japanese Sign Language (Nihon Shuwa). In: Mathur, Gaurav and Donna Jo Napoli eds. Deaf around the World, The Impact of Language. 316-332. New York, USA. Oxford University Press.
Morgan, Michael W. 2006. Interrogatives and negatives in Japanese Sign Language. In: Zeshan, Ulrike. ed. Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Languages. Sign Language Typology Series No. 1. Nijmegen: Ishara Press. 91-127.
Torigoe, Takashi. 2006. Japanese Sign Language, In: Nakayama, Mineharu, Reiko .Mazuka and Yasuhiro.Shirai eds, Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics. Volume 2 Japanese. Cambridge University Press. 137-143.
Nakamura, Karen. 2003. U-turns, Deaf shock, and the hard of hearing: Japanese Deaf identities at the borderlands. 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. 211-229.
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 ]
Sasaki, Daisuke. 2003. Comparing the lexicon of sign languages in East Asia : A preliminary study focusing on the influence of Japanese Sign Language on Taiwan Sign Language. Unpublished manuscript, University of Texas, Austin.
Guerra Currie, Anne-Marie P., Richard P. Meier and Keith Walters. 2002. A crosslinguistic examination of the lexicons of four signed languages. In: Meier, Richard P., Kearsy Cormier, David Quinto-Pozos eds. Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages. 224-236. Cambridge University Press. UK.
Nakamura, Karen. 2002. Resistance and Co‐optation: the Japanese Federation of the Deaf and its Relations with State Power. In Social Science Japan Journal (SSJJ) (2002) Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 17-35.
Nakamura, Karen. 2001. Deaf identities, sign languages, and minority social movement politics in modern Japan (1868-2000). Ph.D.dissertation., C.T., USA: Yale University.
Fischer, Susan and Yutaka Osugi. 2000. Thumbs up vs. giving the finger: Indexical classifiers in NS and ASL. Paper presented at the Seventh Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR 7), Amsterdam.
Minoura, Nobukatsu and Yasuhiro Ichida. 2000: Direct/inverse forms and the fourth person of the agreement verbs in Japanese Sign Language. Poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. July 23rd-27th. Amsterdam. Manuscript.
2000. Japanese Sign Language. In : Turkington, Carol, and Allen E. Sussman eds. The encyclopedia of deafness and hearing disorders, second edition. New York : Facts on File. 117.
Osugi, Yutaka and Supalla, Ted. 1998. Structural analysis of gender handshapes in Nihon Shuwa(Japanese Sign Language). In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :60-74.
Nakamura, Karen. 1997=998. U-turns, Deaf shock, and the Hard-of-hearing: Japanese deaf identities at the borderlands. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :58-59.(translated by Nakamura, Karen: in Japanese) [the report from the invited panel on sign language sociolinguistics at the 96th Annual Meeting of the America Anthropological Association. Washington DC. Nov.11-19 1997]
Mori, Soya. 1997=1998. Deaf nations: Identity and ideology in Japanese sign language communities. In: Sign Language Communication Studies (Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies, Japanese Federation of the Deaf) 27(1998.03) :58.(translated by Nakamura, Karen: in Japanese) [the report from the invited panel on sign language sociolinguistics at the 96th Annual Meeting of the America Anthropological Association. Washington DC. Nov.11-19 1997]
Okamoto, I. 1997. Kindai moorookyooiku no seiritu to hatten : Hurukawa Toisiroo no syoogai kara. [The Rise and Development of Modern Blind/Deaf Education : From the Life of Toshiro furukawa.] Tokyo : NHK(Nihon Hoosoo Kyokai).
Kimura, Harumi and Ichida Yasuhiro. 1995. Hazimete no Syuwa. Tokyo : Nihonbungeisha.
Torigoe, Takashi. 1994. Resumptive X structures in Japanese Sign Language. In : Ahlgren, Inger / Bergman, Brita / Brennan, Mary eds. Perspectives on Sign Language Structure. Durham : International Sign Linguistics Association. 187-200.
Tsuchiya, Michiko. 1994. The deaf Japanese and their self-identity. In: Erting, Carol J., Robert C. Johnson, Dorothy L. Smith, and Bruce D. Snider eds. The Deaf Way: Perspectives from the international conference on Deaf culture. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. 65-68.
Yonekawa, Akihiko. 1984. The history of the Japanese word shuwa (sign language). In : Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Sign Language Studies. 6: 11-16.
Saruhashi, Junko and Yuko Takeshita. Ten Linguistic Issues in Japan: The Impact of Globalization. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Films and videos
Sign Media Inc. ed. 1990. Signs around the world. Japan. Burtonsville, Maryland: SMI (30 min.)
Researchers
History of sign language research
Related pages
Links
Kyoto Prefectural Education Center Website with explanations in English
Japanese Association of Sign Language Interpreters
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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
