With the emergence of an exclusively language-based art in the 1960s, however, conceptual artists such as Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and the English Art & Language group began a far more radical interrogation of art than was previously possible ( see below ).

In the 19th century Henniker had a high rate of congenital deafness, and its own village sign language, which may have played a significant role in the emergence of American Sign Language.

William Stokoe, known by many as the father of American Sign Language linguistics, disagreed that the emergence of ISN is evidence of a language acquisition device.

Intergenerational influence and ontogenetic development in the emergence of spatial grammar in Nicaraguan Sign Language.

Language emergence: Clues from a new Bedouin sign language.

Language emergence in vitro or in vivo?

The emergence of Nicaraguan Sign Language: Questions of development, acquisition, and evolution.

Despite this, the emergence of new sign languages in modern times — Nicaraguan Sign Language, for example — might potentially offer insights into the developmental stages and creative processes necessarily involved.

The system was widespread in Deaf schools in the UK from the 1960s to the 1980s, but since the emergence of British Sign Language and the BSL-based Signed English in deaf education, its use is now largely restricted to the field of speech and language disorder.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Carol Ann Duffy, who was named as Poet Laureate in May 2009, the first woman, the first Scot and the first openly gay poet to take the post.

This led to the emergence of popular political poets ( so-called Tendenzdichter ), including Hoffmann von Fallersleben ( the author of " Deutschland Über Alles "), Ferdinand Freiligrath and Georg Herwegh.

As described by Barcan, this period saw the emergence of mainstream talents like poets Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann, journalists David Solomon, Mungo MacCallum ( Jnr ) and Laurie Oakes, Oz magazine satirists Richard Neville, Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp, and maverick writer Bob Ellis.

The early 17th century saw the emergence of this group of poets who wrote in a witty, complicated style.

This period also saw the emergence of a new generation of Scottish poets that became leading figures on the UK stage, including Don Paterson, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie and Carol Ann Duffy.

However, these poets essentially remained true to the basic tenets of the Romantic movement and the appearance of the Imagists marked the first emergence of a distinctly modernist poetic in the language.

However, the 1950s saw the emergence, particularly in the United States, of a new generation of poets who looked to the modernists for inspiration.

The second half of the century also saw the emergence of a number of women poets of note.

The flowering of the arts was most vividly shown in the emergence of the Romantic poets, principally through Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake, John Keats, Lord Byron and Robert Burns.

The final emergence of a truly indigenous English-language poetry in the United States was the work of two poets, Walt Whitman ( 1819 – 1892 ) and Emily Dickinson ( 1830 – 1886 ).

World War II saw the emergence of a new generation of poets, many of whom were influenced by Wallace Stevens and Richard Eberhart ( 1904 – 2005 ).

Under their rule, the eastern Islamic world witnessed the emergence of prominent Persian poets such as Fayrouz Mashriqi, Abu Salik al-Jirjani, and Muhammad bin Wasif al-Sistani, who was a court poet.

The more general movement, carried forward only with struggle between poets, was the same as was present in the novel: the invention of the subjective self as a worthy topic, the emergence of a priority on individual psychology, against the insistence on all acts of art being performance and public gesture designed for the benefit of society at large.

Its appearance was a key step in the emergence to some kind of public attention of many of the poets associated with the British Poetry Revival, many of whom were included.

Although the journal was short-lived, its contributor list, featuring writers from Ireland, Britain and the United States, was impressive and it played an important role in the emergence of a number of experimental Irish poets.

It played a key role in the emergence of many of the poets associated with the British Poetry Revival.

The emergence of the Liverpool poets as pioneers of " pop poetry " in the UK engendered hostility from the literary establishment.

The emergence of the " Christian right " as a political force and part of the Conservative coalition dates from the 1970s.

This approach became increasingly popular since the 1970s, and since the 1990s, kickboxing has contributed to the emergence of mixed martial arts via further hybridization with ground fighting techniques from jujutsu and collegiate wrestling.

Later, post-Marxist and anarchist tendencies became significant after influence from the Situationists, the failure of Italian far-left movements in the 1970s, and the emergence of a number of important theorists including Antonio Negri, who had contributed to the 1969 founding of Potere Operaio, Mario Tronti, Paolo Virno, etc.

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the emergence of terminal units designed by W6FFC, such as the TT / L-2, ST-3, ST-5, and ST-6.

Its introduction in the 1960s, and emergence as the prominent model of computing in the 1970s, represents a major technological shift in the history of computing.

This output of published wargaming titles from British authors coupled with the emergence at the same time of several manufacturers providing suitable wargame miniatures ( e. g. Miniature Figurines, Hinchliffe, Peter Laing, Garrisson, Skytrex, Davco, Heroic & Ros ) was responsible for the huge upsurge of popularity of the hobby in the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

The civil rights movements of North America in the 1970s saw an emergence of victim claims through revision and appropriation of historical narratives.

The 1970s and 80s are regarded by many as a ' golden age ' of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the dark science fiction of Mad Max ( George Miller, 1979 ) to the romantic comedy of Crocodile Dundee ( Peter Faiman, 1986 ) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford.

Although research in Latvia could only restart in the 1980s, the 1970s saw the emergence of a folklore movement with members which could be described as neopagans.

The downtown area of Reidsville was like many of its counterparts across the state in the 1970s, seeing a decline in business opportunities due to the emergence of malls and shopping centers.

Spurred on by the emergence of punk rock and New Wave, power pop enjoyed a prolific and commercially successful period in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The 1970s saw the emergence of many progressive rock and / or hard rock bands such as O Terço, A Bolha, A Barca do Sol, Som Nosso de Cada Dia, Vímana and Bacamarte, some of which attained some recognition internationally ; Rita Lee, in her solo career after Os Mutantes, championed the glam-rock aesthetics in Brazil ; Casa das Máquinas and Patrulha do Espaço were more bona-fide hard rock bands, and the likes of ( Raul Seixas, Secos e Molhados, Novos Baianos and A Cor do Som ) mixed the genre with traditional Brazilian music.

The term homophile began to disappear with the emergence of the Gay Liberation movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, replaced by a new set of terminology such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, although some of the homophile groups survived until the 1980s, 1990s and even the present day.

1970s also saw the emergence of a notable director P. G. Viswambharan with his debut film Ozhukinethire and mythical film Sathyavan Savithri from the same director, which was well accepted.

Commercial products just for miniatures wargamers and awareness as a single community of people with similar interests date back to the 1950s with the efforts of Jack Scruby ; major developments in the field since then include the rise in the 1960s and 1970s of fantasy and science fiction wargames as an alternative to games based on historical conflicts, and the emergence of companies like Games Workshop, Battlefront, Foundry, Warlord Games, Privateer Press and many others.

Sutter was at the forefront of the emergence of the closer in the late 1970s and early 1980s: a hard-throwing pitcher who typically came in just for the ninth inning and saved around 30 games a season.

In the early 1970s new dance styles fueled the emergence of the disco phenomenon, which spawned a succession of dance fads including the Bump, The Hustle, and the YMCA.

Groups who formed during the emergence of Punk rock in the mid-late 1970s included U2, Virgin Prunes, The Boomtown Rats, The Undertones, Aslan, Gavin Friday, and Stiff Little Fingers.

The emergence of funk and disco in the 1970s also made its mark on the terraces with songs such as " Go West " by the Village People and " Oops Upside Your Head " and The Gap Band remaining popular amongst fans.

The late 1970s saw the emergence of punk rock.

The team, however, gained strength near the end of the 1970s with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet — Erapalli Prasanna and Srinivas Venkataraghavan ( both off spinners ), Bhagwat Chandrasekhar ( a leg spinner ), and Bishen Singh Bedi ( a left-arm spinner ).

This provided the political base for the emergence of an open Eurocommunist faction in the early 1970s.

The 1970s saw the emergence of hard rock as one of the most prominent subgenres of rock music.

A number of heavy metal genres have developed since the emergence of heavy metal ( often shortened to metal ) during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Unusual hair coloring and styles such as spikes, mohawks, dreadlocks, and other uncommon styles designed to look as far from ' normal ' hairstyles as possible, are still associated with punk, although those styles were not popular at the time of punk rock's emergence in the 1970s.