A Quarterly Journal Edited by Erin Wilkinson and Pilar Piñar
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A Quarterly Journal Edited by Erin Wilkinson and Pilar Piñar
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HISTORY OF SLS
After a three-year hiatus, Sign Language Studies commenced publication in the Fall of 2000. The new editor was David F. Armstrong, distinguished anthropologist and author of Original Signs: Gesture, Sign, and the Sources of Language, and also the coauthor of Gesture and the Nature of Language with Stokoe and Sherman Wilcox. A long-time collaborator with Stokoe, Armstrong became a member of the SLS editorial board in 1986. David Armstrong stepped down as editor at the end of 2009 and was succeeded by Ceil Lucas, Professor Emerita, Gallaudet University, who is the coauthor and editor of many Gallaudet University Press books, including Linguistics of American Sign Language and What’s Your Sign for PIZZA?, and is the founding editor of the Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities series. She is also the author of a memoir, How I Got Here. Order Sign Language Studies now. |
Known by many as the father of the linguistics of American Sign Language, William C. Stokoe began publication of Sign Language Studies in 1972. With the encouragement of Thomas Sebeok, Stokoe created his seminal journal as an outgrowth of his pioneering studies of the structure of American Sign language and the dynamics of Deaf communities. From then until recently, SLS has presented a unique forum for revolutionary papers on signed languages and other related disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, semiotics, and deaf studies, history, and literature.