Protactile en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- /ˈpɹəʊtæktəl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈpɹəʊtæktaɪl/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /pɹoʊtæktaɪl/ (General-American)
- /pɹoʊtæktəl/ (General-American)
Etymology
From pro- + tactile, first used c. 2012.
Meanings
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A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
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).
2016 November 14, Massimiliano Spotti, Nelson Flores, Ofelia Garcia, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257: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.
2020 October 9, Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the Useless, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProTactile | alternative | lexicographic | |
| Pro-Tactile | alternative | lexicographic |
Relateds
Wiktionary’s coverage of American Sign Language terms · tactile American Sign Language · tactile ASL