Carl Croneberg
Carl G. Croneberg | |
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Born | Carl Gustav Arvid Olof Croneberg April 26, 1930 Norrbacka, Sweden |
Died | August 7, 2022 | (aged 92)
Citizenship | Swedish and American |
Occupation(s) | Researcher, professor |
Spouse | Eleanor Wetzel |
Children | 3 |
Academic background | |
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Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | American Sign Language |
Institutions | Gallaudet University |
Carl Gustav Arvid Olof Croneberg
Early life and education
Croneberg was born in 1930 in Norrbacka, near Stockholm. He lost his hearing at the age of 10 and was subsequently sent to a Deaf institution where he was educated in Swedish Sign Language. In 1951 he was recruited by Gallaudet University president Leonard M. Elstad to enroll at the university. He graduated in 1955 with bachelor's degree in English.[2][3][4]
Career
In 1958, Croneberg was recruited by William C. Stokoe to work in a research laboratory for a linguistic analysis of the language of signs. Alongside researchers William C. Stokoe and Dorothy S. Casterline, he noticed that ASL has a linguistic system (phonology, morphology, syntax). They recognized ASL as a natural language with its own rules of grammar and syntax. Later, he was a co-writer of A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, with Stokoe and Casterline.[6] In the book, Croneberg gave an early ethnographic and sociological portrait on the Deaf community and its regional dialects.[7]
Croneberg was one of the first sociologists to use the term "culture" to describe signing deaf Americans' way of life, and was the first to discuss the differences between
On May 13, 2022, Croneberg was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Gallaudet University for his pioneer work in American Sign Language research.[11]
Personal life and death
Croneberg was married to the former Eleanor Wetzel, and had two daughters and a son.[3] He died on August 7, 2022, at the age of 92.[3]
Publications
- Stokoe, William C.; Dorothy C. Casterline; Carl G. Croneberg. 1965. A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet College Press[6]
References
- ^ "Carl-Gustaf A. O. Croneberg : B.A., 1955". gaislandora.wrlc.org. October 26, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- ^ S2CID 213587733.
- ^ a b c Risen, Clay (August 29, 2022). "Carl Croneberg, Explorer of Deaf Culture, Dies at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ "Carl-Gustaf A. O. Croneberg : B.A., 1955 | Library Deaf Collections and Archives". gaislandora.wrlc.org. Retrieved December 5, 2018.
- ^ Maher, Jane. 1996. Seeing Language in Sign--The Work of William C. Stokoe, Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press, p. 89
- ^ OCLC 855307958– via Open WorldCat.
- ^ a b Hochgesang, J. A., & Miller, M. T. (2016). A celebration of the Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles: Fifty years later. Sign Language Studies Journal, 16(4).
- ^ Stokoe, William; Dorothy Casterline, and Carl Croneberg. 1965. Appendix D: sign language and dialects. A Dictionary of American Sign Language. Silver Spring, MD: Linstok.
- ^ Woodward, J. 1975. How You Gonna Get to Heaven if You Can't Talk with Jesus: The Educational Establishment vs. the Deaf Community. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
- ISBN 978-1-56368-489-0.
- ^ "Commencement 2022". April 22, 2022.