page_title: Carl Croneberg
section_title: Education and career
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Croneberg / Education and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Croneberg and Stokoe at Linguistics Research Laboratory (1961)
context_page_description: Carl G. Croneberg is a Deaf linguist known for his work on American Sign Language.
context_section_description: Croneberg is a Deaf Swedish man who graduated from Gallaudet University in 1955 with bachelor's degree in English. In 1958, Croneberg was recruited by William C. Stokoe to work in a research laboratory for a linguistic analysis of the language of signs. Alongside researchers William C. Stokoe and Dorothy S. Casterline, he noticed that ASL has a linguistic system (phonology, morphology, syntax). They recognized ASL as a natural language with its own rules of grammar and syntax. Later, he was a co-writer of Dictionary of American Sign Language on its linguistic principles, with Stokoe and Casterline. In the book, Croneberg gave an early ethnographic and sociological portrait on the Deaf community and its regional dialects. Croneberg coined the term Deaf culture and was the first to discuss the differences between Black ASL and white ASL. The work on Deaf Culture and Black American Sign Language continues. Croneberg knew four languages: Swedish, German, English and ASL. He taught in the English department at Gallaudet University for 30 years until his retirement in 1986.
caption: Croneberg and Stokoe at Linguistics Research Laboratory (1961)
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