Chapter 10. Overview of and epistemological conditions for building and using LSF corpora
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Marie-Anne Sallandre
Abstract
This chapter discusses French Sign Language (LSF) corpora and how they have evolved over the last thirty years in France. We first outline the epistemological and social conditions in which corpora were constructed by the pioneers of the field to explain how, in our opinion, their corpus-driven approach was decisive and very specific to France. Second, we focus on the theoretical framework we use, namely the Semiological Approach, and on the corpus-driven linguistics underlying this approach. On these bases, we present various LSF corpora that exist today, with particular focus on the two main corpora designed by our team, namely LS-Colin and Creagest, with special attention to data collected from deaf children. We then highlight how our own relationship with corpus data remains fundamental and heuristic.
Abstract
This chapter discusses French Sign Language (LSF) corpora and how they have evolved over the last thirty years in France. We first outline the epistemological and social conditions in which corpora were constructed by the pioneers of the field to explain how, in our opinion, their corpus-driven approach was decisive and very specific to France. Second, we focus on the theoretical framework we use, namely the Semiological Approach, and on the corpus-driven linguistics underlying this approach. On these bases, we present various LSF corpora that exist today, with particular focus on the two main corpora designed by our team, namely LS-Colin and Creagest, with special attention to data collected from deaf children. We then highlight how our own relationship with corpus data remains fundamental and heuristic.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Notes on the contributors xii
- List of abbreviations and acronyms xxi
- Chapter 1. Sign language corpus linguistics 1
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Part I. Advances in sign language linguistics
- Chapter 2. Negative Concord in Sign Language of the Netherlands 30
- Chapter 3. Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in the Norwegian Deaf community 66
- Chapter 4. Syntactic functions of nonmanuals in Russian Sign Language 90
- Chapter 5. A corpus-based analysis of coordinate structures in Libras 123
- Chapter 6. Verb classes in South African Sign Language 155
- Chapter 7. Exploring regional variation in the DGS Corpus 192
- Chapter 8. Studying microdiachronic change with the Catalan Sign Language corpus 219
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Part II. Advances in sign language corpus construction
- Chapter 9. Creating a multifaceted corpus of Swedish Sign Language 242
- Chapter 10. Overview of and epistemological conditions for building and using LSF corpora 262
- Chapter 11. W(h)ither the ASL corpus? 287
- Chapter 12. Developing an inventory of handshapes, locations, and movements in Hong Kong Sign Language 309
- Chapter 13. Utterance unit annotation for the Japanese Sign Language Dialogue Corpus 353
- Index 383
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Foreword ix
- Acknowledgements xi
- Notes on the contributors xii
- List of abbreviations and acronyms xxi
- Chapter 1. Sign language corpus linguistics 1
-
Part I. Advances in sign language linguistics
- Chapter 2. Negative Concord in Sign Language of the Netherlands 30
- Chapter 3. Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in the Norwegian Deaf community 66
- Chapter 4. Syntactic functions of nonmanuals in Russian Sign Language 90
- Chapter 5. A corpus-based analysis of coordinate structures in Libras 123
- Chapter 6. Verb classes in South African Sign Language 155
- Chapter 7. Exploring regional variation in the DGS Corpus 192
- Chapter 8. Studying microdiachronic change with the Catalan Sign Language corpus 219
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Part II. Advances in sign language corpus construction
- Chapter 9. Creating a multifaceted corpus of Swedish Sign Language 242
- Chapter 10. Overview of and epistemological conditions for building and using LSF corpora 262
- Chapter 11. W(h)ither the ASL corpus? 287
- Chapter 12. Developing an inventory of handshapes, locations, and movements in Hong Kong Sign Language 309
- Chapter 13. Utterance unit annotation for the Japanese Sign Language Dialogue Corpus 353
- Index 383