Protactile
A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
Proper noun
- A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
- 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). - 2016 November 5, Massimiliano...
- 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. - 2020 October 9, Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the...
Origin
From pro- + tactile, first used c. 2012.
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