L ingui stic, soc iocultural , and political texts on British Sign Language (BSL) and the communities that use it have universally cited an October 1975 American Annals of the Deaf article by Mary Brennan (1944–2005) as the first time the designation for BSL was coined in print. While this research brief in no way seeks to diminish the body of Brennan’s inestimable contributions, we offer some interesting findings about earlier attempts to name the language. What follows is an expansion of selected mentions in Leahy (2020) that collect and briefly describe eleven published and unpublished sources originated by six authors from November 1960 through August 1975, followed by a tabular summary.

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命名英国手语 1960–1975

关于英国手语 (BSL) 和使用它的社区的语言、社会文化和政治文本普遍引用了 Mary Brennan（1944-2005）在 1975 年 10 月发表的美国聋人年鉴文章，作为第一次指定BSL 是在印刷品中创造的。虽然本研究简报绝不试图削弱布伦南不可估量的贡献，但我们提供了一些关于早期尝试命名该语言的有趣发现。接下来是对 Leahy (2020) 中选定提及的扩展，这些内容收集并简要描述了 1960 年 11 月至 1975 年 8 月由六位作者撰写的 11 篇已发表和未发表的资料，然后是表格摘要。