Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- Regional Sign Variation(also: Sign Language Dialect, Regional Sign Dialect)
- Regional sign variation refers to systematic differences in the form of signs across geographic regions within a single sign language, analogous to dialects in spoken languages. Variation arises from local Deaf school traditions, contact between communities, and historical…
- Rhetorical Question (ASL)(also: ASL Rhetorical Question, RHQ)
- In American Sign Language, a grammatical construction in which the signer poses a question and then immediately answers it, used as a cohesive rhetorical device rather than as a genuine inquiry. ASL rhetorical questions are marked by specific non-manual signals — typically…
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