LING BING:

Documenting Experiences in the Gallaudet Linguistics Department

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This image shows the LING BING team seated in a U shape watching a presentation, and everyone is smiling and laughing. Also visible are cameras on tripods, and a banner on the back wall which commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Linguistics Department from 2021.

Conducted in the fall of 2025, the LING BING project aimed to document personal narratives, experiences, and perspectives on the Gallaudet linguistics department, with the goal of preserving this historical record and making it available for future exploration. We recruited current and former students, faculty members, and/or departmental affiliates, as well as outside perspectives.

As members of the Linguistics Department ourselves, our objective was to document and reflect on how individuals with various backgrounds have interacted with, experienced, influenced, or been affected by their affiliation with the Linguistics Department at Gallaudet. While acknowledging that we, as researchers, are part of the communities we investigate, this work was conducted in conjunction with our communities, following their lead to determine which knowledge to document and preserve.

This image shows all 6 LING BING researchers standing side-by-side while producing the sign name for the project - the ILY handshape with a bent index finger on touching the chin. They stand in front of a banner commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Gallaudet University Linguistics Department from 2021.

Who are we?

The LING BING project was conducted during the fall 2025 Field Methods course, part of the graduate program of linguistics at Gallaudet University.

In this photo, Pamela Decker-Wright sits on a black chair in front of a grey screen across from Krystin Balzarini, seated on a black chair on the right of the image. In the foreground, a tripod mounted camera is recording their interaction.

Data Collection

We are no longer collecting data for this project. This data was collected in the fall of 2025 over the course of one semester.

For more information, please visit our primary data page.

In this photo, the LING BING team are all seated in a room with their laptops on their laps while Julie Hochgesang conducts a virtual interview. Light stands can be seen set up in the middle of the room.

Project Values

We center community ownership of data, embrace language variation, and value the diversity and multiplicity of experiences within ASL communities. LING BING aligns with philosophies found in the Austin Principles of Data Citation, FAIR, and CARE.

LING BING at a Glance

Number of Interviews conducted: 21

Number of Guest Lectures: 4

Number of Public Videos collected: 36

Total hours of video data: 36h 20m 06s

Number of English narratives: 1

Number of documents collected: 2

This is a GIF image of a timelapse which shows the LING BING team setting up their interview space with 3 cameras, which ultimately ends with Sasho and Grace seated in front of the cameras.

Primary Data (videos and ELAN transcripts) Available Here

The LING BING dataset is part of the Collections of ASL for Research and Documentation (CARD), which serves as both a research philosophy and a resource hub. It is inspired in part by other data efforts such as the Austin Principles of Data Citation, FAIR, and CARE.

To cite this project: Hochgesang, J. A., Balzarini, K., Ivanov, A., Lipiz, K., Saenz, S. J., & Shi, G. (2025). LING BING: Documenting Experiences in the Gallaudet Linguistics Department. OSF TBD

Questions? Contact: FieldMethodsGU at Gallaudet dot edu

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