Sign language lexicography : a case study of an online dictionary

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.4312/slo2.0.2021.1.216-235" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4312/slo2.0.2021.1.216-235</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/slo2.0.2021.1.90-122" target="_blank" >10.4312/slo2.0.2021.1.90-122</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sign language lexicography : a case study of an online dictionary

Original language description

As a growing field of study within sign language linguistics, sign language lexicography faces many challenges that have already been answered for audio-oral language material. In this paper, we present some of these challenges and methods developed to help navigate the complex lexical classification field. The described methods and strategies are implemented in the first Czech sign language (ČZJ) online dictionary, a part of the platform Dictio, developed at Masaryk University in Brno. We cover the topic of lemmatisation and how to decide what constitutes a lexeme in sign language. We introduce four types of expressions that qualify for a dictionary entry: a simple lexeme, a compound, a derivative, and a set phrase. We address the question of the place of classifier constructions and shape and size specifiers in a dictionary, given their peculiar semantic status. We maintain the standard classification of classifiers (whole entity and holding classifiers) and size and shape specifiers (SASSes; static and tracing specifiers). We provide arguments for separating the category of specifiers from the category of classifiers. We discuss the proper treatment of mouthings and mouth gestures concerning citation forms, derivation and translation. We show why it is difficult in sign language to distinguish synonyms from variants and how our proposed phonological criteria can help. We explain how to construct a semantic definition in a sign language and what is the solution for multiple meanings of one form. We offer simple guidelines for forming proper examples of use in a sign language. And finally, we briefly comment on the process of the translation between sign and spoken languages. We conclude the paper with a summary of roles that Dictio plays in the ČZJ-signing community.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovenščina 2.0 : empirical, applied and interdisciplinary research

ISSN

2335-2736

e-ISSN

2335-2736

Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SI - SLOVENIA

Number of pages

33

Pages from-to

90-122

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85111177195