Protactile
English
Alternative forms
- Pro-Tactile
- ProTactile
Etymology
pro- + tactile.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹoʊtæktaɪl/, /pɹoʊtæktəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊtæktaɪl/, /ˈpɹəʊtæktəl/
Proper noun
Protactile
- A dialect of American Sign Language that communicates with touch.
- 2014 August 20, John Lee Clark, “Pro-Tactile: Bursting the Bubble.”, in Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience, Handtype Press, →ISBN:
- 2016 November 1, Massimiliano Spotti, Nelson Flores, and Ofelia Garcia, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 257:
- 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).
- 2020 October 9, Erin Manning, For a Pragmatics of the Useless, Duke University Press, →ISBN:
- 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.
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of American Sign Language terms
Anagrams
- tricolpate