Topics Workshop SignNonmanuals 2

The workshop focusses on:

a. NONMANUALS in sign languages

• their description
• their functions
• their interplay/contribution with phonological, morphologic, syntactic, and discourse units
• their gestural, prosodic, linguistic interpretation/definition/interface
• their variation
• iconicity & conceptuality
• translation challenges

b. CORPUS and SIGNBANK issues

• creating, enhancing, linking lexicon databases and corpora
• annotation of nonmanuals in SL corpora and signbanks
• methods and tools for sign language description
• different SL corpora (IS, L2, language acquisition, multilingual,…)
• variation
• translation within corpora

c. DEAF ISSUES and TRANSLATION ISSUES

• Inclusion of Deaf native perspective in SL description
• Corpus translation and use of corpora for interpreter training
• Deaf and sign language rights
• Language attitude
• Publishing scientific papers in sign language