Timothy Loh, Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Anthropology, recently published an article in American Anthropologist, “Sign Language as ‘Mother Tongue Orphan’: A Challenge to Raciolinguistic Multiculturalism in Singapore." In the article, Loh examines the contested status of ”sign language" in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.

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