Taiwan Sign Language Research: An Historical Overview *
Taiwan Sign Language Research: An Historical Overview *
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台湾手语研究：历史概览 *
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2005
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W. Smith
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W. Smith
本文简要回顾了台湾手语研究的历史。在描述了关于TSL本身的起源之后，它注意到对TSL的研究开始得很晚，第一篇关于TSL的文章直到20世纪50年代末才出现（Li 1959）。在1960年代和1970年代初，台湾各地的聋人学校都准备了“中国手语”和“手语国语”。作者本人的研究始于20世纪70年代中期的符号收集和编目，并通过一些关于TSL非手动信号，词序，复合构成，语音和音韵学以及眉毛提升的语言学论文进行了研究。第一篇关于TSL的论文是Smith 1989。那时，其他研究者已经开始认真研究TSL，中华民国全国聋人协会赞助了两本TSL教科书（Smith & Ting 1979，1984）。在1990年代后期，作者参与了台北市政府的手语翻译培训教材开发项目。最近，一些语言学家联合起来深入研究第二语言，导致了一些项目，如出版这期语言和语言学特刊。未来的工作建议包括研究华语语篇、编纂华语综合字典、编写更高级的教材，以及研究台湾聋人史，如果知道这段历史的人不把它传给下一代，它将永远消失。
This paper briefly summarizes the history of research on Taiwan Sign Language (TSL). After describing what is known about the origins of TSL itself, it notes that research on TSL began quite late, with the first known article concerning TSL not appearing until the late 1950s (Li 1959). Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, collections of “Chinese Sign Language” and Signed Mandarin signs were prepared at schools for the deaf in various parts of Taiwan. The author’s own research on TSL began in the mid-1970s with sign collecting and cataloguing, and progressed on through a number of linguistics papers on TSL non-manual signals, word order, compound formation, phonetics and phonology, and eyebrow raising. The first dissertation to be written on TSL was Smith 1989. By then other researchers had begun to look seriously at TSL, and the National Association of the Deaf of the Republic of China had sponsored two TSL textbooks (Smith & Ting 1979, 1984). In the late 1990s, the author participated in the Taipei City Government’s project to develop TSL training materials for sign language interpreters. More recently a number of linguists have joined forces to examine TSL in depth, resulting in projects such as the publication of this special issue of Language and Linguistics. Suggestions for future work include studies of TSL discourse, the production of a comprehensive dictionary of TSL, the preparation of instructional materials at a more advanced level, and research into Deaf history in Taiwan: if those who know this history do not pass it on to the younger generation, it will be lost forever.