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A twelfth official language? The constitutional future of South African Sign Language

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2020
The 2017 recommendation by the Constitutional Review Committee of the South African Parliament that South African Sign Language (SASL) be added to the Constitution as the country’s 12th official language has been forwarded to parliament for action, but, as of the writing of this article,it has yet to be approved.
Timothy G. Reagan
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A mobile application for South African Sign Language (SASL) recognition

AFRICON 2015, 2015
Sign Language uses manual hand and body gestures as well as non-manual facial expressions as a means of communication between deaf and hearing communities. A communication divide exists between the deaf and hearing communities, to the disadvantage of the deaf.
Michael Seymour, Mohohlo Tsoeu
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The translation of biblical texts into South African Sign Language

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2007
This article aims to prove that biblical texts in South African Sign Language (SASL) are more accessible than written or printed biblical texts for deaf-born South African people who use sign language as their first language. The study made use of the functionalist approach in translation to translate six parts from the Bible into SASL.
Jacobus Naude
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The Status of South African Sign Language in South African Universities

open access: yes, 2022
This article examines the status of South African Sign Language (SASL) in South African universities. It provides an appraisal of the policy documents which regulate language use in South African universities in order to examine the extent to which the policy documents guarantee the educational linguistic human rights of deaf and hard of hearing ...
Ndlovu, Eventhough
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Inclusive education for Deaf students: Literacy practices and South African Sign Language

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 2012
This article considers the feasibility of inclusive education for Deaf students in a mainstream Further Education and Training (FET) classroom through the use of a South African Sign Language interpreter. It revisits the centrality of language in Deaf students' education and reports on progressive policy changes in the areas  of language ...
Meryl Glaser
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Vision Based Automatic Translation for South African Sign Language

2023 IEEE AFRICON, 2023
Mokgadi Setshekgamollo   +2 more
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The Officialisation of South African Sign Language: Implications for Place-Name Planning

Language Matters, 2020
The South African Parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee recommended in 2017 that South African Sign Language (SASL) be declared the country’s 12th official language and that the Constitution...
Lodewyk du Plessis
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Language Policy, South African Sign Language, and the Deaf: Social and Educational Implications

Southern African Journal of Applied Language Studies, 1997
In this article we examine South African Sign Language in light of the recommendations made by the Language Plan Task Group on future language policy. The deaf community is discussed as a cultural and linguistic entity and some research on the nature of South African Sign Language is provided.
Claire Penn
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