Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Sign Language Elicitation Techniques (Survey)
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| Author: | Carlo Cecchetto | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Applied Linguistics
Language Documentation |
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| Query: |
As coordinators of a network of researchers working on European sign
languages funded by the intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), we are contacting sign language researchers for a survey on elicitation techniques for different grammatical aspects of sign languages. The SignGram COST Action “Unraveling the grammars of European sign languages: pathways to full citizenship of deaf signers and to the protection of their linguistic heritage” aims at creating a common blueprint to develop grammars for the different European sign languages. There are still many aspects of the grammar of European sign languages that need to be thoroughly explored before a comprehensive reference grammar can be produced (this holds for more studied sign languages, even more so for sign languages that have a more recent research tradition). In order to facilitate this research, specific elicitation techniques for the different grammatical properties are needed. Of course we do not start from scratch, so the first step is collecting materials that have been already used for elicitation and evaluating to what extent they could accompany the blueprint as a development tool. That is why we decided to create a first inventory of such materials, classified for the specific purpose it was used for. At a later stage (if the researchers agree and there no copyright problem) this material could be uploaded in the SignGram Cost Action webpage, which is currently under construction. This should allow different teams to use the same type of material to study the same linguistic phenomenon in different sign languages (modulo differences among them studied, of course). “Materials” is an umbrella term, which includes pictures, videos but also more immaterial devices (like plays, ways to set up linguistic exchanges, suggestions on how to fix problems that usually arise when a specific setting is used, etc. ). Although the institutional goal of COST is promoting the study of European sign languages, we know that this survey might be helpful also for researchers working on non-European sign languages. If you or your research group have materials that you are willing/allowed to share with other researchers, please contact our colleague Galini Sapounztaki at the following e-mail address: gsapountz@uth.gr She will send you a questionnaire that you are kindly requested to fill in and send back to her by April, 12 (this questionnaire was prepared mainly by our colleagues Kearsy Cormier and Christian Rathmann). This would be the first step. Those who answer the questionnaire will be contacted again, with a report about our survey. The information on where to find the results of the survey will be posted in this list. I hope that you find this initiative useful and I thank you in advance for your time and for your invaluable help, Carlo Cecchetto and Josep Quer |
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| LL Issue: | 23.1117 | |
| Date posted: | 06-Mar-2012 | |
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