Language Planning in Action: Depiction as a Driver of New Terminology in Irish Sign Language

Moiselle, Rachel Ann | Leeson, Lorraine

Volume:: Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources
Venue:: Marseille, France
Date:: 25 June 2022
Pages:: 139–143
Publisher:: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:: CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:: 22016
ACL ID:: 2022.signlang-1.21
ISBN:: 979-10-95546-86-3

Content Categories

Projects:: SignOn
Languages:: Irish Sign Language
Dictionaries:: ISL Covid19 Glossary, Irish Sign Language STEM Glossary, Justisigns 2 Glossary

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the linguistic phenomenon known as ‘depiction’, which relates to the ability to visually represent semantic components (Dudis, 2004). While some elements of this have been described for Irish Sign Language, with particular attention to the ‘productive lexicon’ (Leeson & Grehan, 2004; Leeson & Saeed, 2012; Matthews, 1996; O’Baoill & Matthews, 2000), here, we take the analysis further, drawing on what we have learned from cognitive linguistics over the past decade. Drawing on several recently developed domain-specific glossaries (e.g., STEM1, Covid-192, political domain, Sexual, Domestic and Gender Based Violence (SDGBV)-related vocabulary) we present ongoing analysis indicating that a deliberate focus on iconicity, in particular, elements of depiction, appears to be a primary driver. We also consider the potential implications of the insights we intend to gain from Deaf-led glossary glossary development work in the context of Machine Translation goals, for example, for work in progress on the Horizon 2020 funded SignON project.

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Rachel Ann Moiselle, Lorraine Leeson. 2022. Language Planning in Action: Depiction as a Driver of New Terminology in Irish Sign Language. In Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources, pages 139–143, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

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@inproceedings{moiselle:22016:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Moiselle, Rachel Ann and Leeson, Lorraine},
  title     = {Language Planning in Action: Depiction as a Driver of New Terminology in {Irish} {Sign} {Language}},
  pages     = {139--143},
  editor    = {Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna and Schulder, Marc},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2022} 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources},
  maintitle = {13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2022)},
  publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
  address   = {Marseille, France},
  day       = {25},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2022},
  isbn      = {979-10-95546-86-3},
  language  = {english},
  url       = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/22016.pdf}
}