Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings

Dictionaries and Deaf Users — Current Problems and the Need for Better Solutions. Sign language lexicography is a branch of lexicography that has until now been a largely vague, unimportant area. The development of sign language lexicography has in the past been subject to various forms of bias and...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1a86ab08a8ca410a8a2061f911fe07502021-12-03T08:22:26ZWoordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings10.5788/23-1-12071684-49042224-0039https://doaj.org/article/1a86ab08a8ca410a8a2061f911fe07502013-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1207https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039Dictionaries and Deaf Users — Current Problems and the Need for Better Solutions. Sign language lexicography is a branch of lexicography that has until now been a largely vague, unimportant area. The development of sign language lexicography has in the past been subject to various forms of bias and limitation. Often it was not considered necessary to compile a bilingual dictionary in which it is also possible to look up a sign because bilingual sign language dictionaries were mostly aimed at hearing people who wanted to or had to learn the lan­guage. In addition to that it was very difficult, owing to the nature of printed dictionaries and the lack of a sign lan­guage orthography, to present and order signs so that they may be searched with­out using a writ­ten search term. Some notation systems were developed in an effort to circum­vent this problem, but these systems never found widespread acceptance with regular users. The devel­op­ment of electronic sign language dictionaries however have caused a revolution in sign language lexicography. It is no longer unusual to find electronic sign language dictionaries in which it is not only possible to search for a word, but also for a sign, usually according to one or more of the sign's parameters, like handshape. Such dictionaries make it possible for a Deaf user to obtain direct access to his or her first language (sign language) without any knowledge of the sec­ond language (the written language). The article also points out a newly proposed model for very young Deaf users which allows them to also search for a sign or word via concept.Hanelle Fourie BlairWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticlesign languagelexicographydictionarysign parameterssign notationelectronic dictionariesdeaf target usersliteracyuser situationdictionary culturePhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 23, Pp 113-134 (2013)
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collection DOAJ
language AF
DE
EN
FR
NL
topic sign language
lexicography
dictionary
sign parameters
sign notation
electronic dictionaries
deaf target users
literacy
user situation
dictionary culture
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages
PD1-7159
spellingShingle sign language
lexicography
dictionary
sign parameters
sign notation
electronic dictionaries
deaf target users
literacy
user situation
dictionary culture
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PL1-8844
Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages
PD1-7159
Hanelle Fourie Blair
Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
description Dictionaries and Deaf Users — Current Problems and the Need for Better Solutions. Sign language lexicography is a branch of lexicography that has until now been a largely vague, unimportant area. The development of sign language lexicography has in the past been subject to various forms of bias and limitation. Often it was not considered necessary to compile a bilingual dictionary in which it is also possible to look up a sign because bilingual sign language dictionaries were mostly aimed at hearing people who wanted to or had to learn the lan­guage. In addition to that it was very difficult, owing to the nature of printed dictionaries and the lack of a sign lan­guage orthography, to present and order signs so that they may be searched with­out using a writ­ten search term. Some notation systems were developed in an effort to circum­vent this problem, but these systems never found widespread acceptance with regular users. The devel­op­ment of electronic sign language dictionaries however have caused a revolution in sign language lexicography. It is no longer unusual to find electronic sign language dictionaries in which it is not only possible to search for a word, but also for a sign, usually according to one or more of the sign's parameters, like handshape. Such dictionaries make it possible for a Deaf user to obtain direct access to his or her first language (sign language) without any knowledge of the sec­ond language (the written language). The article also points out a newly proposed model for very young Deaf users which allows them to also search for a sign or word via concept.
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author Hanelle Fourie Blair
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title Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
title_short Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
title_full Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
title_fullStr Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
title_full_unstemmed Woordeboeke en Dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
title_sort woordeboeke en dowe gebruikers: huidige probleme en die behoefte aan beter oplossings
publisher Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT
publishDate 2013
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