Protactile
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pro- + tactile, first used c. 2012.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊtæktaɪl/, /pɹoʊtæktəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊtæktaɪl/, /ˈpɹəʊtæktəl/
Proper noun
[edit]Protactile
- A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
- 2014 August 20, John Lee Clark, “Pro-Tactile: Bursting the Bubble.”, in Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience, Handtype Press, →ISBN:
- 2016 November, Massimiliano Spotti, Nelson Flores, Ofelia Garcia, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257:
- Exploring the linguistic phenomenon of pro-tactile has lead Terra Edwards to make distinctions between Tactile ASL (TASL) and Visual ASL (VASL) (www.protactile.org, October 3, 2014).
- 2020 October 9, Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the Useless, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
- ProTactile builds on this quality of expression, alive with decisions made on the fly, touches become pass-words for fields of composition as yet uncharted.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Christine Amanda Roschaert (2013 February 18) “Pro-Tactile: The DeafBlind Way!!!”, in Tactile the World[1], WordPress, archived from the original on 2014-11-20:
- Having already learned the basics of yet-unnamed PT prior to visiting Scandinavia in 2012 during my European lecture series, […] When I gave my lecture at the Copenhagen Association of the Deaf, a Deafblind Dane came up to me and mentioned that they use the Haptic. […] It was only coincidence, that three months after my initial lesson in Haptic, I was introduced to the newly-named Pro-Tactile method. Now there was a name to what I was doing all along with aj [Granda] and my Deafblind peers in Seattle.
- ^ Mentioned in Michele Friedner, Stefan Helmreich (2012 March) “Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies”, in Senses & Society, volume 7, number 1, Routledge, , →ISSN, page 81:
- A new bumper sticker reading “Pro Tactile,” found on cars in Seattle, Washington, home of America’s largest Deaf-Blind community, and exhortations, also found mostly in Seattle, such as “Tactile love” remind us of the centrality of something other than sound or vision in many peoples’ social worlds […] .