Status
South African Sign Language is not standardized and continues to evolve. Due to the geographical spread of its users and past educational policies, there are localized dialects of South African Sign Language and signs with many variants. Earlier efforts to create reference material and standardize the language such as books ( 1980 Talking to the Deaf, 1994 Dictionary of SASL can only be used has historical records of the language. Daily TV broadcasts in sign language gives today's South African Sign Language its national cohesion and unity.
Read more about this topic: South African Sign Language
Famous quotes containing the word status:
“The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman’s aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“Knowing how beleaguered working mothers truly are—knowing because I am one of them—I am still amazed at how one need only say “I work” to be forgiven all expectation, to be assigned almost a handicapped status that no decent human being would burden further with demands. “I work” has become the universally accepted excuse, invoked as an all-purpose explanation for bowing out, not participating, letting others down, or otherwise behaving inexcusably.”
—Melinda M. Marshall (20th century)
“A genuine Left doesn’t consider anyone’s suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.”
—Robin Morgan (b. 1941)