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What Name Signs Can Tell Us About Deaf Culture
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 66, Spring 1990
- pp. 1-23
- 10.1353/sls.1990.0009
- Article
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Twenty deaf people were interviewed about name signs and their use. Their responses point to underlying cultural values expressed in name signs and also provide practical information about the making and bestowing of name signs, changing one’s name sign, and evolution in the name sign system.