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Brainstorming topic ideas for paper terms, reports, essays, etc.

Sign Language

  • history of American Sign Language
  • grammars, structures, syntax, semantics, etc.
  • classifier
  • gender
  • differences between natural sign language (eg. A.S.L.) and signed systems (eg. S.E.E.)
  • name signs

    • Socio-linguistics

  • shift from Deaf culture and community to Sign culture and Sign community
  • ASL and Ameslan
  • Martha's Vineyard
  • origin of language
  • extinction of some sign languages (eg Maritime Sign Language)

    • Interpreting

  • professionalism
  • ethics
  • interpreting in the medical, legal, and educational fields

    • Neuroscience

  • cognitive processes
  • visual thinking or visual imagery
  • reading

    • Sign Arts

  • ASL poetry (or another sign language)
  • ASL storytelling (or another sign language)
  • traditional South Eastern dance that does "signing" hand symbol (mandras)
  • ASL performances and theatres
  • deaf artists