Sampling Shared Sign Languages

This article addresses some of the theoretical questions, ethical considerations, and methodological decisions that guided the creation of the Kata Kolok corpus, as well as the Kata Kolok child signing corpus. This discussion is relevant to the formation of prospective sign corpora that aim to portr...

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Published inSign language studies Vol. 16; no. 2; p. 204
Main Author de Vos, Connie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Gallaudet University Press 01.12.2016
Subjects
Community
Community Characteristics
Community Relations
Corpus linguistics
Data collection
Deafness
Dialect Studies
Documentation
Elementary Education
Elementary Schools
Ethics
Hypotheses
Language acquisition
Language of Instruction
Linguistics
Morphology (Languages)
Planck, Max
Sign language
Social networks
Sociolinguistics
Urban Areas
Verbs
Bali
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Summary:This article addresses some of the theoretical questions, ethical considerations, and methodological decisions that guided the creation of the Kata Kolok corpus, as well as the Kata Kolok child signing corpus. This discussion is relevant to the formation of prospective sign corpora that aim to portray the various sociolinguistic landscapes in which sign languages, whether rural or urban, emerge and evolve.
ISSN:0302-1475
1533-6263
DOI:10.1353/sls.2016.0002