Zaban Eshareh Irani (ZEI) and Its Fingerspelling System

Sanjabi, Ali; Behmanesh, Abbas Ali; Guity, Ardavan; Siyavoshi, Sara; Watkins, Martin A.; Hochgesang, Julie

doi:10.1353/sls.2016.0010

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“…Variation in fingerspelling is common across signed languages. Signed languages may use their own unique set of handshapes to represent the orthography of the surrounding spoken language, as is seen with the signed language used by the deaf community in Iran-Zaban Eshareh Irani (Sanjabi et al 2016). Alternatively, they may use the same or similar fingerspelled alphabet as another signed language but add handshapes for letters not found in the original alphabet, as in Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS), which uses the fingerspelled alphabet from ASL with minor phonetic variations but adds handshapes for 'ch,' 'sch,' 'ä,' 'ü,' 'ö' (Ebling et al 2017).…”

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Fingerspelling and Its Role in Translanguaging

Lee

Secora

2022

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Fingerspelling is a critical component of many sign languages. This manual representation of orthographic code is one key way in which signers engage in translanguaging, drawing from all of their linguistic and semiotic resources to support communication. Translanguaging in bimodal bilinguals is unique because it involves drawing from languages in different modalities, namely a signed language like American Sign Language and a spoken language like English (or its written form). Fingerspelling can be seen as a unique product of the unified linguistic system that translanguaging theories purport, as it blends features of both sign and print. The goals of this paper are twofold: to integrate existing research on fingerspelling in order to characterize it as a cognitive-linguistic phenomenon and to discuss the role of fingerspelling in translanguaging and communication. We will first review and synthesize research from linguistics and cognitive neuroscience to summarize our current understanding of fingerspelling, its production, comprehension, and acquisition. We will then discuss how fingerspelling relates to translanguaging theories and how it can be incorporated into translanguaging practices to support literacy and other communication goals.

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Section: Linguistics Of Fingerspellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fingerspelling and Its Role in Translanguaging

Lee

Secora

2022

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Design and Realization of a Sign Language Educational Humanoid Robot

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Chapter 3. Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in the Norwegian Deaf community

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Anda

2023

Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics

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In this chapter, we detail the on-going work related to the Norwegian Sign Language Corpus and lexical database (Norwegian Signbank). In particular, we highlight the corpus’ interactional focus and discuss its implications for a description of Norwegian Sign Language grammar and lexicon. We then present an initial study that maps out the different types of fingerspelling (one type of sign-writing contact), observed in the corpus, focusing on non-lexicalized forms. Two analyses were performed to investigate whether fingerspelling is affected by sociolinguistic factors and principles of Audience Design (Bell 1984). Basing this descriptive work on data from the corpus facilitates a better understanding of how these language contact forms contribute to expressions of social identity and illustrates one way that Norwegian signers leverage their multilingualism for meaning-making in conversation.

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Zaban Eshareh Irani (ZEI) and Its Fingerspelling System

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Fingerspelling and Its Role in Translanguaging

Fingerspelling and Its Role in Translanguaging

Design and Realization of a Sign Language Educational Humanoid Robot

Chapter 3. Exploring sign-writing contact and multilingualism in the Norwegian Deaf community

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