Ceil Lucas
Ceil Lucas | |
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Born | March 19, 1951 |
Other names | Ceil Kovac |
Occupation | Professor of Linguistics |
Known for | Sign language linguistics, sociolinguistic variation in American Sign Language |
Title | Professor Emerita |
Academic background | |
Alma mater |
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Linguistic variation, Sign language | |
Institutions | Gallaudet University |
Ceil (Kovac) Lucas (born March 19, 1951) is an American linguist and a
Early life and education
Lucas was born in the United States but raised from ages five through twenty-one in Guatemala City and in Rome, Italy.[4]
Lucas studied at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and received her BA in French and art history. Later, she earned her M.S. and PhD (1980) in linguistics from Georgetown University. (She also holds an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.)
Career
In 1973, Lucas started teaching Italian and continues to do so.[4]
Lucas began teaching at Gallaudet University in 1981 and, alongside Robert Johnson and Scott Liddell, was one of the inaugural faculty to teach in the university's new linguistics graduate program. Lucas was a professor in the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University until her retirement in 2014.[2]
During her tenure at Gallaudet, Lucas served as
Honors
Lucas is currently the editor of Sign Language Studies at Gallaudet University Press, a position she's held since 2009.
In 2022, Lucas was one of the recipients of the
Bibliography
- Kovac, Ceil. 1980. Children’s Acquisition of Variable Features. PhD dissertation, Georgetown University.
- Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1990. Sign Language Research: Theoretical Issues. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press.
- Lucas, Ceil, and Clayton Valli. 1992. Language Contact in the American Deaf Community. Academic Press.
- Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1995. Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ISSN 1080-5494.
- Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1996. Multicultural Aspects of Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 978-1-56368-108-0.
- Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 1998. Pinky Extension and Eye Gaze: Language Use in Deaf Communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ISSN 1080-5494.
- Lucas, Ceil, Robert Bayley, and ISSN 1080-5494.
- Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 2001. The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages. Cambridge University Press.
- Lucas, Ceil, Robert Bayley, and ISBN 978-1-56368-144-8.
- Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 2002. Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ISSN 1080-5494.
- Lucas, Ceil (ed.). 2003. Language and the Law in Deaf Communities. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press. ISBN 978-1-56368-317-6.
- ISBN 978-1-56368-507-1.
- ISBN 978-1-56368-489-0.
- Bayley, Robert, Richard Cameron, and Ceil Lucas. 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press.
- Schembri, Adam C., and Ceil Lucas. 2015. Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities. Cambridge University Press.
References
- ^ "Faculty and Administrator Emeriti". Gallaudet University. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ^ a b "Gallaudet Celebrates Sesquicentennial Commencement". Gallaudet University. 17 May 2014. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
- ^ "Ceil Lucas". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
- ^ ISBN 978-1945271618.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 0936085 - The History and the Structure of Black American Sign Language (ASL): Materials for Building Community Awareness". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
- ^ "Linguistics, Language, and the Public Award | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
- ^ "LSA Announces 2023 Class of Fellows | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
External links
- Sign Language Studies Editorial Board
- The Black ASL Project
- Gallaudet Video Library, Linguistic Video Collection (This collection contains video data from both the Sociolinguistic Variation In ASL and The History and Structure of Black ASL projects.)