Until 1960, sign languages were widely dismissed as gesture, not language. William Stokoe's linguistic analysis of American Sign Language proved otherwise: a full grammar, with its own phonology (handshape, location, movement), morphology, and syntax, expressed in a channel with no sound at all. This course uses ASL and other signed languages to ask the deeper question underneath: what is language, if it doesn't need a voice to be one.
IACSInt'l Academy for Consciousness Studies