Abstract We introduce Crip Linguistics as a theoretical and abolitionist framework. People
use languages in different ways. Some people use language to help find other people like …

This article opens a conversation between disability studies and linguistics from the author's
positionality from the Global South. It argues that capacity building for both the abled and …

International Sign (IS) and American Sign Language (ASL) have both been used as lingua
francas within international deaf contexts. Perspectives on the uses of IS and ASL as lingua …

Cross-linguistic studies of tactile sign language are still not widely performed internationally.
For this study, four deafblind informants in two different tactile sign languages, Swedish Sign …

Teachers of the deaf, signed language interpreters, and associated staff (eg, secretaries and
sanitation workers) are a salient part of a deaf child's community often because hearing …

This article employs analytic autoethnography to study online events and social media that I
participated in as a deaf scholar during the COVID-19 pandemic. With reference to Derrida's …

Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily
actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences …

What are languages? An assemblage approach to language gives us ways of thinking about
language as dynamic, constructed, open-ended, and in and of the world. This book unsettles …

This article makes a case for understanding International Sign (IS) as a distributed practice.
IS, a translingual practice, arose from interactions among individuals from diverse linguistic …

Posthumanist thought brings a set of ethical and political concerns to the (socio) linguistic
table to do with human relations to the planet and its other inhabitants. This opens up a …