Everything about Quebec Sign Language
Deaf sign language of francophone Canada
Quebec Sign Language is the predominant sign language of Deaf communities used in francophone Canada, primarily in Quebec. Although named Quebec sign, LSQ can be found within communities in Ontario and New Brunswick as well as certain other regions across Canada. Being a member of the French Sign Language family, it is most closely related to French Sign Language (LSF), being a result of mixing between American Sign Language (ASL) and LSF. As LSQ can be found near and within francophone communities, there is a high level of borrowing of words and phrases from French, but it is far from creating a creole language. However, alongside LSQ, signed French and Pidgin LSQ French exist, where both mix LSQ and French more heavily to varying degrees. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Quebec Sign LanguageA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Surviving the SilenceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Grammar, Order & Position of Wh-Signs in Quebec Sign LanguageCited 17 times
- Go sideways: Deafness in Francophone CanadaA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Varieties of American Sign LanguageA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Grammar, Order & Position of Wh-Signs in Quebec Sign Language
We’re waving hands! Creating a graphic novel in Quebec Sign Language
Visual Bridges: A Comparative Study between Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and Quebec Sign Language (LSQ)
Visual Bridges: A Comparative Study between Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) and Quebec Sign Language (LSQ)
đź“š Books worth reading
Surviving the SilenceCharlotte Pierce-Baker · 1998
La phonologie dynamique du mouvement en langue des signes québécoiseChristopher Ray Miller · 2000- 📕Études sur la langue des signes québécoiseColette Dubuisson, Marie Nadeau · 1993
- 📕Devant la Cour suprême du Canada (en appel de la Cour d'appel du Québec)Canada. Supreme Court. · 1987
- 📕In the Supreme Court of Canada (on appeal from the Quebec Court of Appeal) between the Attorney General of Quebec, appellant and La Chaussure Brown's Inc., Valerie Ford, McKenna Inc., Nettoyeur et Tailleur Masson Inc., and La Compagnie de fromage nationale ltée., respondents and the Attorney General of Canada, the Attorney General of Ontario, the Attorney General of New Brunswick, intervenersCanada. Supreme Court. · 1987
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