Sign language and the people who own it. | Li-Sa Wang | TEDxYouth@HCIS

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2015 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Who owns a language? The people who are associated with it or the people who use it? A wonderful question pertaining to the use and the overlap of the sign language between the deaf community and society in general.

The LMS Team
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
NTU Singapore

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