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"This book is concerned with Algerian Jewish Sign Language (AJSL) and the Algerian Jewish Sign Language community. AJSL developed naturally in the Jewish quarter of Ghardaia, a town in the sub-Saharan part of Algeria. A high percentage of deaf people lived in this quarter, and because of that a sign language emerged, and was used by both deaf and hearing members of the community. Many members of the AJSL community migrated to Israel in the middle of the twentieth century, where they have continued to use AJSL with friends and family members. As a result, AJSL has persisted alongside the dominant sign language of Israel, which is Israeli Sign Language (ISL). AJSL is unique as a sign language that has persisted in Israel, alongside a widely used sign language, where the sign languages of other immigrant communities have long since disappeared. The case is made for the importance of documenting AJSL; language documentation is crucial, given that AJSL is now used only by older generations, and no longer acquired by younger generations."

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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. Current grammatical knowledge about particular sign languages is fragmentary and of varying reliability, and it appears scattered in scientific publications where the description is often intertwined with the analysis. In general, comprehensive grammars are a rarity. The SignGram Blueprint is an innovative tool for the grammar writer: a full-fledged guide to describing all components of the grammars of sign languages in a thorough and systematic way, and with the highest scientific standards.The work builds on the existing knowledge in Descriptive Linguistics, but also on the insights from Theoretical Linguistics. It consists of two main parts running in parallel: the Checklist with all the grammatical features and phenomena the grammar writer can address, and the accompanying Manual with the relevant background information (definitions, methodological caveats, representative examples, tests, pointers to elicitation materials and bibliographical references). The areas covered are Phonology, Morphology, Lexicon, Syntax and Meaning. The Manual is endowed with hyperlinks that connect information across the work and with a pop-up glossary.The SignGram Blueprint will be a landmark for the description of sign language grammars in terms of quality and quantity.

Linguistics --- Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication --- Descriptive Linguistics. --- Grammaticography. --- Sign Language Description. --- Sign Language Grammar.

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This study on language vitalization and community empowerment in the Kosovar sign language community focuses on linguistic work taking place within the framework of a development co-operation project between two NGOs in Kosovo and Finland. The long-term objectives were to improve the status of Kosovar Sign Language (KosSL) and to guarantee the human (linguistic) rights of Deaf language users – for them to obtain access to society on an equal basis with other citizens. This was implemented through lobbying for legal recognition of KosSL and by advocacy work directed at governmental authorities.One of the central activities in the project was to conduct basic documentation and description of KosSL, and provide linguistic training for representatives of the sign language community.The study has implications for similar language vitalization work in sign language communities, including the importance of raised language awareness, involving the whole community, and Deaf role models in the implementation of the work. Methodological issues dealt with a range of different topics; from the relationship between the language community and the outside advisor, to language use and everyday working methods. Partnership-enhancing methods had a significant influence on the success of the project, and resulted in community members’ ownership of the work.

Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication --- Deaf --- Sign language. --- Means of communication --- Means of communication.

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This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in the visual modality and what implications this has for theoretical and typological study of information structure. Such issues as syntactic and prosodic markers of information structure and their interactions, relations between different notions of information structure, and grammaticalization of markers of information structure are highlighted. Empirical studies of the two sign languages also showcase different methodologies that are used in such research and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. The book contains a general introduction to the field of information structure and thus can be used by linguists new to the field.

Dutch Sign Language. --- Russian Sign Language. --- Rossiĭskiĭ zhestovyĭ i︠a︡zyk --- Russkiĭ zhestovyĭ i︠a︡zyk --- RZhI︠A︡ (Sign language) --- Sign language --- Nederlandse Gebarentaal --- NGT (Sign language) --- Sign Language of the Netherlands --- SLN (Sign language) --- Information Structure. --- Sign Languages.

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L’objet de ce travail est la prosodie, composante suprasegmentale de la phonologie. Cette dernière est étudiée à la fois en langues vocales et en langues des signes où elle accomplit les mêmes fonctions et où elle est régie par une hiérarchie de constituants identiques. Des divergences formelles s’observent entre les deux modalités au niveau de la nature des marqueurs prosodiques (marqueurs manuels et non manuels en langues des signes ; marqueurs acoustiques en langues vocales), en lien avec le mode de transmission des langues. Il s’avère néanmoins que les gestes co-verbaux utilisés par les entendants dans leurs interactions conversationnelles sont décrits comme étant fortement corrélés aux marqueurs prosodiques acoustiques. Ces gestes sont de même nature que les marqueurs prosodiques utilisés en langues des signes, dont les hochements de tête ne sont qu’un exemple parmi d’autres. La comparaison du fonctionnement de la prosodie des deux modalités n’a que très rarement fait l’objet d’études. Il s’agit pourtant d’un sujet de recherche pertinent pour comprendre ce qui est commun à la faculté langagière et ce qui semble particulier à une langue ou à un ensemble de langues. Suite à ces observations, nous avons élaboré un projet d’étude comparant l’apport de différents hochements de tête (head nods, noddings, shakings, turns, head jerks simples et répétés) en français oral et en langue des signes de Belgique francophone. Les résultats vont dans le sens d’un lien entre prosodie et hochements dans les deux modalités. Bon nombre de tendances générales s’observent entre les deux langues, comme la primauté des fonctions accentuelles et discursives des hochements utilisés en tant que marqueurs prosodiques. Des variations idiosyncratiques sont aussi fort nombreuses, notamment au niveau des caractéristiques cinématiques des mouvements employés. Nos analyses doivent cependant faire l’objet d’études complémentaires.

Prosodie --- Langues des signes --- Marqueurs non manuels --- LSFB --- Langue des signes de Belgique francophone --- Geste --- Linguistique contrastive --- Français --- Sign languages --- Prosody --- Nonmanuals --- Gesture --- Contrastive linguistics --- French Belgian Sign Language --- French --- Arts & sciences humaines > Langues & linguistique