Signs Movie
The movie Signs
(Hughes, 2008) is a short movie without spoken language, the protagonists communicate by showing each other written English words on paper. The end of the movie is open about the hearing status of the female protagonist. The movie is approximately five minutes long.
Both informants are asked to watch the movie and exchange on the content.
This task is expected to collect signs about feelings and love as well as assumptions. If needed subtitles for other languages were added.
| Stimulus | Signs Movie |
|---|---|
| Target | Conversation and signs expressing love, feelings, assumptions |
| Degree of Interaction | High (exchange about topic) |
| Duration | 5–10 min |
| Source | Hughes (2008), available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzI0vv2ROE4. |
Task uses in corpora
| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 1 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 141 |
| Data available | https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format20_en.html |
| Corpus | PJM Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Polish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | not available |
| Data available | none |
Articles mentioned above
- Patrick Hughes (2008). "Signs".
This entry was last modified on 29 July 2021.