SIGN LANGUAGE WORK - World Federation of the Deaf

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THE FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF • Native sign language users use different form of language in different situations • Compare e.g. the language used in private conversations to the language used in seminar presentations When is a standard variety of sign language used? • Public, “official” purposes, like TV news, Government information on the web • When producing teaching materials there might be an conscious effort to use a standard variety • In dictionary work the aim might be to describe standard language instead of regional dialects
THE FINNISH ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF • Standardization work is usually associated with writing and literacy – the “right” way to write the language according to grammars and dictionaries • Signed languages are often compared to written languages that are more standardized than spoken languages • It is within the nature of a language that does not have a written form to have a big amount of variation • Making a dictionary is standardization work in the way that not all the signs of the language is included in the dictionary • The chosen sign might in the future be considered more “right” than other signs, since they are recorded in the dictionary • The dictionary makers of AlbSL wanted to show variation in the language by including variants of the same concept (see e.g. signs 34, 35, 37, 38 for ‘brother’). The AlbSL dictionary was descriptive and not prescriptive
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