Frances Elton
Frances Elton is an English linguist, Sign Language teacher and trainer. She is Deaf and a British Sign Language user.
Biography[edit]
Elton was born in Poole to a Deaf family. She attended Mary Hare Grammar School. In her late twenties she moved to London. She then got a job in a sewing machine factory, and worked there for over eleven years. In London, Elton met her lifelong partner June Smith, and finally, in 1985, found a job in a Deaf environment, working with the British Deaf Association Deaf Video Project.[1]
In 1988, Elton achieved a British Sign Language Training Course from Durham University, where the British Sign Language Training Agency had been set up by Clark Denmark in 1985. Elton then was recruited as a teacher and trainer herself, and worked for several years as a trainer of new Sign Language teachers.[2]
Elton was part of the original team involved in the publication of the British Sign Language Dictionary, which was published in 1992 and represents a milestone for British Sign Language. It is the first hardcopy dictionary of British Sign Language, and it depicts over 1,800 signs along with their definition and use.[3]
She then carried on work on Sign Language linguistics at University College of London[4][5], from which she took retirement in 2013.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Tessa Padden: Interviewing Frances Elton for Close Up". The Limping Chicken.
- ↑ "Close up: Frances Elton". BSL Zone.
- ↑ Brien, David; Brennan, Mary, eds. (1992). Dictionary of British Sign Language. Durham: Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571143466. Search this book on
- ↑ "Former DCAL staff and students". UCL.
- ↑ Ceil, Lucas, ed. (2001). The Sociolinguistics of Sign Languages. Durham: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521794749. Search this book on
- ↑ "Frances Elton's Retirement Seminar". UCL.
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