Toward a further understanding of the extensibility of sign languages

<p>Sign language video recordings have limited extensibility when compared with live, face-to-face communication by signers. In an effort to improve the extensibility of video recordings this study explores the possibility of leveraging a common meaning negotiation technique, depictional signing, to increase understanding of recorded texts. In an effort to gauge the understanding of depictional signing compared to lexical signing a Recorded Text Test was devised using two texts, one with a high number of visual depictions, the other with a high number of lexical signs. While a comparison of the results of the two tests did not substantiate the hypothesis for reasons that appear to have introduced spurious results, the comparisons of the two styles of signing within each story did confirm the hypothesis.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Year

2013

Author dc:creator

• Hopkins, Jason

Contributors dc:contributor

• J. Albert Bickford

• cross-linguistic
• extensibility
• lexical
• relevance theory
• RTT
• sign language
• Linguistics
• Sign Languages

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.und.edu/theses/1437

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.und.edu:theses-2438