About this Elements Series
While signed language research has diversified greatly in the past several decades, there are no comprehensive series that cover a broad range of topics on signed language structure and use, while also including valuable information and analyses about signing communities.
This series aims to represent diversity in the field, including consideration of a multitude of topics, theoretical approaches, and research designs. In the past, aspects of the field of signed language research have been notably underrepresented; namely, representation of signed languages from developing countries and inclusion of deaf scholars among the authors of publications on signed languages. This series aims to address this lack of underrepresentation by including both deaf and hearing researchers among the authors and within the editorial board of the series. We also make every effort to include scholars from underrepresented continents and countries in the field.
Video-based summaries of each Element will provide accessibility, in signed language, for a diverse audience.
Elements in this series
About the Series Editors
Erin Wilkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. She has broad research interests in bilingualism and multilingualism, language documentation and description, language change and variation, signed language typology, and language planning and policy in highly diverse signing communities. Her current studies in collaboration with other researchers examine cognitive and linguistic processing in signing bilingual populations. She also explores what linguistic structures are re-structured over time in signed languages and what are possible factors that contribute to language change and variation in signed languages in the lens of usage-based theory.
David Quinto-Pozos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include signed language contact and change, the interaction of language and gesture, L1 and L2 signed language acquisition, spoken-signed language interpretation, and vocabulary knowledge and literacy. He has served as an editor/co-editor of four volumes on signed language research, including Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages (Meier, Cormier, & Quinto-Pozos, eds. 2002; Cambridge University Press), Sign Languages in Contact (Quinto-Pozos, ed. 2007; Gallaudet University Press), Multilingual Aspects of Signed Language Communication and Disorder (Quinto-Pozos, 2014; Multilingual Matters), and Toward Effective Practice: Interpreting in Spanish-influenced Settings (Annarino, Aponte-Samalot, & Quinto-Pozos, 2014; National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers).
Contact the Series Editors
If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, please contact:
Erin Wilkinson: ewilkins@unm.edu
David Quinto-Pozos: davidqp@austin.utexas.edu