What did you do when it happened
Informants are presented to shocking or moving events in the past, e.g. the moon landing, the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, 9/11 or the death of Princess Diana and asked to report how they felt and what they did when they heard about the event. The description is signed and accompanied with pictures to evoke memories. Aim of the task is a lively description in monologues or dialogues and the collection of information on how deaf people experienced the events with their limited access to information.
| Stimulus | Signed instruction and pictures |
|---|---|
| Target | Lively signing, documentation of Deaf culture |
| Degree of Interaction | Middle (can be monologues and dialogues) |
| Duration | 20 min |
| Source | See Nishio et al. (2010) |
Task uses in corpora
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| Corpus | DGS Corpus |
|---|---|
| Corpus Language | German Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 52 |
| # recordings – restricted access | 279 |
| Data available |
https://meine-dgs.de/formats/format1_en.html 
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| Corpus | PJM Corpus |
| Corpus Language | Polish Sign Language |
| # recordings – open access | 0 |
| # recordings – restricted access | information not available |
| Data available | none |
References
Primary references
- Rie Nishio, Sung-Eun Hong, Susanne König, Reiner Konrad, Gabriele Langer, Thomas Hanke, Christian Rathmann (2010). "Elicitation methods in the DGS (German Sign Language) Corpus Project". In: Proceedings of the LREC2010 4th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies (Valletta, Malta). Ed. by Philippe Dreuw, Eleni Efthimiou, Thomas Hanke, Trevor Johnston, Gregorio Martínez Ruiz, Adam Schembri. Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 178-185.
This entry was last modified on 29 July 2021.