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Protactile
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English
Alternative forms
en Pro-Tactile
en ProTactile
Etymology
From en pro tactile, first used c. 2012.en https://tactiletheworld.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/pro-tactile-the-deafblind-way/ Tactile the World 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. Pro-Tactile: The DeafBlind Way!!! 2013-02-18 Christine Amanda Roschaert https://web.archive.org/web/20141120124130/https://tactiletheworld.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/pro-tactile-the-deafblind-way/ 2014-11-20 2023-04-06 WordPressMentioned in en 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 . Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies Senses & Society 2012 March Michele Friedner; Stefan Helmreich 81 1 7 1745-8927 10.2752/174589312X13173255802120 Routledge
Pronunciation
en /pɹoʊtæktaɪl/ /pɹoʊtæktəl/ GenAm
en /ˈpɹəʊtæktaɪl/ /ˈpɹəʊtæktəl/ RP
Proper noun
A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
en John Lee Clark Pro-Tactile: Bursting the Bubble. Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience 2014-08-20 Handtype Press 9781310980329
en 257 The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society November 2016 9780190212902 Massimiliano Spotti; Nelson Flores; Ofelia Garcia w:Oxford University Press 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).
en For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning 2020-10-09 9781478012597 Duke University Press 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.
Synonyms
en PT
See also
en tactile American Sign Language, en tactile ASL
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References
Anagrams
en aceiloprtt tricolpate
en Languages Names of sign languages