Peggy Swartzel Lott

TOP PANEL is a candid snapshot of an adult white person with shoulder length red hair, clear framed glasses and a long sleeve gray button down shirt, with hands in the air.  Over the photo the heading in white font says "Peggy Swartzel Lott,  Academic Coordinator, Continuing Lecturer, American Sign Language"

Below the top panel, on the left side there are 3 playable videos (transcripts below).  On the right side, in black font on a white background, information is shared under the following blue font headings: About Me, Contact Information, Office Hours, Sign illustration and video production publications.

1st VIDEO transcript: STUDY ASL AT UC SAN DIEGO

Opening screen: THIS VIDEO HAS NO SOUND - ON PURPOSE

For a minute, we want you to experience American Sign Language the way a deaf person might.

Title: Peggy Lott, Academic Coordinator for ASL, UC San Diego 

[Peggy is a white adult person with shoulder length red hair, wearing clear glasses and a V-neck black sweater.  The video background is plain, dark gray.]

Peggy signs: I’m hearing.  However - I’m a lucky hearing person.  Why? Because a long time ago, when I was a child, I met a woman who is deaf - and I became fascinated with her signing.  For the past 20 years, I’ve been coordinating the teaching of ASL in UC San Diego’s Linguistics Language Program. We have 250-300 students studying ASL with us each year. 

Title: Brad Cohen, ASL Instructor, UC San Diego

[Brad is a young adult white male with dark brown short hair, wearing a light gray polo shirt]

Brad signs: You can even minor in ASL! I’m deaf.  ASL is essential to Deaf culture. It’s really awesome for deaf and hearing people to come together and interact. It’s a better place for deaf people. 

Peggy signs: That’s great for hearing people too. Communicating visually is so… enriching. It’s opened my mind in so many ways. Come join us!  Thank you. 

Brad signs: Thank you! 

Closing screen:

Logo: UC San Diego

ling.ucsd.edu/language

2nd VIDEO transcript: Book Trailer: The Gallaudet Children's Dictionary of ASL

Against a white background with a blue horizontal stripe across the top and a yellow vertical stripe down the left side, a series of 12 children in bright colored T-shirts sign one ASL sign each with English translations printed on the screen.  The 12 signs are: ACT, BEAUTIFUL, CANDY, CAR, CAT, EARTH, GHOST, HAPPY, HOPE, INVESTIGATE, KID, RAINBOW.

In between the children signers, four adults sign the following sentences in ASL:

Young adult white male signer with blonde hair wearing a light purple T-shirt signs “Last Saturday we washed the car.”

Young adult Black female signer wearing a pink T-shirt signs  “This cat is afraid of a little mouse.”

Young adult white female signer with long blonde curly hair wearing a sleeveless red shirt signs “We all need to take care of the earth.”

Adult Latino male signer with dark hair and mustache in a purple T-shirt signs “The children are happy when Dad comes home.”

Closing titles: 

On the left an image of the cover of the Dictionary, 

on the right in white font on a black background: 

Brought to you by The Gallaudet Children’s Dictionary of American Sign Language 

By the Editors of Gallaudet University Press

Available NOW at your local bookstore or gupress.gallaudet.edu

Logo: GU PRESS

3rd VIDEO transcript: Sign Language Studies in Paris UC San Diego

A white adult person with shoulder length red hair wearing a gold beret and a green shirt is sitting in a French cafe looking at photographs.  As the camera approaches, they look up and sign the following in LSF.  English subtitles appear in white font at the bottom of the screen.  Images of Paris sights are interspersed with the signed portion of the video.

Bonjour! Ça va?  These photos of Paris remind me of when I lived there for 5 months some years ago! 

[images of the Eiffel Tower, an artist painting the Pont Neuf, the Arc de Triumph and a café table with fruit, croissants and coffee]

I lived at the world’s first deaf school at rue St. Jacques… I taught a group of deaf students preparing to visit Gallaudet University.  I helped them learn ASL so they could communicate easily while in the United States.  I also learned from them!  They shared with me their sign language… LSF.  Meeting and signing with deaf and hearing people was a rich cultural experience for me! I’ve returned often and I always dreamed of guiding a group of American students to Paris… Now my dream will finally become a reality! 

[image of Café Signes in Paris]

This July/August I will teach a two course Global Seminar in sign language linguistics in Paris! One course will compare signs from ASL and LSF… For example, the ASL and LSF signs for DEAF are nearly the same… The ASL and LSF signs for CULTURE, however, are actually very different… Why are some signs similar while others are different? These are very interesting subjects in linguistics we will explore! 

[image of a statue of the Abbé de l’Epée]

Our 2nd course focuses on the history of ASL as a language… What other sign languages did ASL borrow from as it evolved? For example, old LSF definitely contributed to ASL… also Native American sign languages influenced ASL… as well as the sign language of African Americans, and sign languages of Mexico and Hawai’i also contributed to ASL… All of these languages have contributed to ASL! 

[image of an engraved panel of the Abbé de l’Epée with some students]

You do NOT need to know a sign language to join this Global Seminar!  People who know a sign language are welcome!  People who do not know any sign language are equally welcome!  Everyone is welcome to participate! 

[Image of a white male signing I Love You with a view of Paris in the background]

We will work hard as we study together and learn much! Of course we will also enjoy and learn on excursions in and around Paris!  For example, we will visit the school at rue St. Jacques where Laurent Clerc studied long ago… 

[image of the courtyard and back garden of the deaf school at rue St. Jacques]

We will visit the International Visual Theatre in Paris… 

[image of the front doors of IVT]

We will attend the Festival Clin d’ceil… there we will meet many deaf people, view theatre performances, see deaf art and watch films… 

[images of the Clin d’ceil logo and two Deaf performers]

We’ll have lunch at the Café Signes… a restaurant owned and operated in sign language by deaf people… where we can order our coffee in sign and meet local deaf people… 

[image of the Café Signes table with a tiny cup of coffee and menu]

So why am I signing today in LSF? I want to show you some LSF so you can see if you understand a little… I sign LSF but I am not a professor of LSF… My expertise is in ASL… which I have studied and taught at the university for 20 years.  Are you curious about the seminar? Would you like more information? Check out the Global Seminar website… there’s a lot there to explore! Or feel free to send me an email… I’d be happy to explain more! Don’t forget that dream.  Let’s go to France together this summer! 

[images in a quick video montage running around Paris]

Closing titles: Merci!  

http://studyabroad.ucsd.edu/students/programs/global-seminars/paris-asl/index.html   

Dr. Peggy Lott plott@ucsd.edu

LSF consultant Bruno Moncelle

Video consultant Brandon Scates

Instagram photo credits:  festivalclindoeil, international visual theatre, ericlawrin, deaf tours, fred0708, christianguemy, freeaparis