While research on conversation in signed and spoken languages has been flourishing, research on their intersection is scarce. This paper presents an ongoing project that gathers and analyses video data from deaf people's everyday interaction with hearing nonsigners and considers possibilities of involving the communication community that is at its centre and participant empowerment. The scope is to investigate the organisation and structure of communication in which linguistic resources are less accessible and in which social meaning tends to emerge from the interactants' online analysis of the local context (e.g., spatial environment, bodily configurations and movement of the interactants).
@inproceedings{cibulka:18032:sign-lang:lrec,
author = {Cibulka, Mio},
title = {Communication Across Sensorial Divides -- A Proposed Community Sourced Corpus of Everyday Interaction between Deaf Signers and Hearing Nonsigners},
pages = {23--28},
editor = {Bono, Mayumi and Efthimiou, Eleni and Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita and Hanke, Thomas and Hochgesang, Julie A. and Kristoffersen, Jette and Mesch, Johanna and Osugi, Yutaka},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {LREC2018} 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community},
maintitle = {11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC} 2018)},
publisher = {{European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}},
address = {Miyazaki, Japan},
day = {12},
month = may,
year = {2018},
isbn = {979-10-95546-01-6},
language = {english},
url = {https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec/pub/18032.pdf}
}