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Tamayo, Ana – Sign Language Studies, 2022
This article explores current creative practices involving the representation of sign languages, sign language interpreting, sign language translation (Napier and Leeson 2016; HBB4ALL 2017; CNLSE 2017; Tamayo 2022), and sign language live translation (Tamayo 2022) in audiovisual content. To that end, a review of the concept "creative sign…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Deaf Interpreting, Translation, Creativity
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Fuentes, Mariana; Massone, Maria Ignacia; Fernandez-Viader, Maria del Pilar; Makotrinsky, Alejandro; Pulgarin, Francisca – Sign Language Studies, 2010
Numeral-incorporating roots in the numeral systems of Argentine Sign Language (LSA) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC), as well as the main features of the number systems of both languages, are described and compared. Informants discussed the use of numerals and roots in both languages (in most cases in natural contexts). Ten informants took part in…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Number Systems, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries
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Quer, Josep – Sign Language Studies, 2012
Despite being minority languages like many others, sign languages have traditionally remained absent from the agendas of policy makers and language planning and policies. In the past two decades, though, this situation has started to change at different paces and to different degrees in several countries. In this article, the author describes the…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Educational Policy
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Bonvillian, John D.; Ingram, Vicky L.; McCleary, Brendan M. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
The accounts of two men who participated in several Spanish-led expeditions to the New World in the early 1500s document the frequent use of manual signs and gestures in the initial interactions between European explorers and the indigenous peoples of North America. Bernal Diaz del Castillo described the events that occurred during three…
Descriptors: American Indians, Foreign Countries, North Americans, Observation