Every culture, language and generation has their own slang – whether it be the hip daddy-o’s from the 1950s or those hella legit NorCal surfers from the 90s. And Deaf culture is no different. For ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Amanda Morris about how sign language evolves over time, the subject of her recent piece in The New York Times. In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary, perhaps the most ...

Sign language is a language you express by using your hands and face instead of spoken words. It’s most commonly used by people in the Deaf community. How many types of sign language are there? There ...

When Andiswa Gebashe was growing up in Soweto in the 1990s, she had two dreams. "I wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be the president," she says. Today, improbably, she is both – thought not ...

Digital media is changing language — sometimes rapidly. We explore the example of American Sign Language. By David Leonhardt On a train ride from New York to Connecticut last fall, my colleague Amanda ...