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Depicting Signs and Different Text Genres: Preliminary Observations in the Corpus of Finnish Sign Language

Takkinen, Ritva | Keränen, Jarkko | Salonen, Juhana


Volume:
Proceedings of the LREC2018 8th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Involving the Language Community
Venue:
Miyazaki, Japan
Date:
12 May 2018
Pages:
189–194
Publisher:
European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
License:
CC BY-NC 4.0
sign-lang ID:
18038
ISBN:
979-10-95546-01-6

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Languages:
Finnish Sign Language, Finland-Swedish Sign Language
Corpora:
CFinSL

Abstract

In this article we first discuss the different kinds of signs occurring in sign languages and then concentrate on depicting signs, especially on their classification in Finnish Sign Language. Then we briefly describe the corpora of Finland’s sign languages (CFINSL). The actual study concerns the occurrences of depicting signs in CFINSL in different text genres, introductions, narratives and free discussions. Depicting signs occurred most frequently in narratives, second most frequently in discussions and least frequently in introductions. The most frequent depicting signs in all genres were those that depicted the whole entity moving or being located. The second most frequent were those signs that expressed the handling of entities. The least frequent depicting signs were those with size- and shape-tracing handshapes. The proportion of depicting signs of all the signs in each genre was 17.9% in the narratives, 2.9% in the discussions and 2.2% in the introductions. In order to deepen the analysis, depicting signs will have to be investigated from the perspective of movement types and the use of one or two hands.

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@inproceedings{takkinen:18038:sign-lang:lrec,
  author    = {Takkinen, Ritva and Ker{\"a}nen, Jarkko and Salonen, Juhana},
  title     = {Depicting Signs and Different Text Genres: Preliminary Observations in the Corpus of {Finnish} {Sign} {Language}},
  pages     = {189--194},
  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/18038.pdf}
}
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