Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
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Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.
No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.
Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
American Sign Language requires a lot of facial and body expression.
On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social.
The more people that learn sign language, the better. This is part of my life, but it's not part of everybody's life, so it's nice to expose this to the world.
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