29.5087, Calls: Sign Language; General Linguistics/Austria
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Subject: 29.5087, Calls: Sign Language; General Linguistics/Austria
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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:51:19
From: Andrea Lackner [andrea.lackner at uni-graz.at]
Subject: SignNonmanuals 2 - International Sign Language Workshop on Nonmanuals, Corpus and Signbank Issues, and the Inclusion of Deaf and Translation Issues in Linguistic Studies
Full Title: SignNonmanuals 2 - International sign language workshop on nonmanuals, corpus and signbank issues, and the inclusion of Deaf and translation issues in linguistic studies
Short Title: SignNonmanuals
Date: 03-May-2019 - 04-May-2019
Location: University of Graz, Austria
Contact Person: Andrea Lackner
Meeting Email: andrea.lackner at uni-graz.at
Web Site: http://signnonmanuals.aau.at/en/node/679
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Language Family(ies): Sign Language
Call Deadline: 08-Mar-2019
Meeting Description:
International sign language workshop on nonmanuals, corpus and signbank
issues, and the inclusion of Deaf and translation issues in linguistic
studies.
The University of Graz, Department of Linguistics, is hosting an international
workshop on nonmanuals in sign language linguistics from May 3rd to 4th, 2019.
The Department of Linguistics is located at the Universitätszentrum Wall,
Merangasse 70.
The official languages of the conference will be Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS),
International Sign (IS) and English.
This workshop focuses on:
a) Nonmanuals in sign languages
- their description
- their functions
- their interplay/contribution with phonological, morphologic, syntactic, and
discourse units
- their gestural, prosodic, linguistic interpretation/definition/interface
- their variation
- iconicity & conceptuality
- translation challenges
b) Corpus and Signbank issues
- creating, enhancing, linking lexicon databases and corpora
- annotation of nonmanuals in SL corpora and signbanks
- methods and tools for sign language description
- different SL corpora (IS, L2, language acquisition, multilingual,…)
- variation
- translation within corpora
c) Deaf Issues and Translation Issues
- Inclusion of Deaf native perspective in SL description
- Corpus translation and use of corpora for interpreter training
- Deaf and sign language rights
- Language attitude
- Publishing scientific papers in sign language
Dedication:
The workshop is dedicated to Franz Dotter, our former supervisor and head of
the previous FWF-project. We will always remember him as a great colleague who
ambitiously intervened on behalf of Deaf rights and sign language research.
Invited signers and speakers will be:
Prof. Dr. Christian Rathmann, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Onno A. Crasborn, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Call for Papers:
http://signnonmanuals.aau.at/en/node/680
The Workshop SignNonmanuals invites signed and spoken presentations as well as
posters for a poster session. Signed/Spoken presentations will be limited to
20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Participants are welcomed to
contribute to one or more of three topic areas:
a) Nonmanuals in sign languages
b) Corpus and Signbank
c) Deaf Issues and Translation Issues
Abstracts (presentation or poster) can be submitted in English (written) or in
Austrian Sign Language(ÖGS)/International Sign:
Written abstract: Written abstracts must not be longer than two
pages(including references, tables and examples). Name(s) of the author(s),
title, language of presentation, type of presentation and contact details are
to be added separately.
Signed abstract: Signed abstract must not be longer than 5 minutes. Name(s) of
the author(s), title, language of presentation, type of presentation and
contact details are to be added without any time limits.
Submission of Papers:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 08-March-2019
Notification of acceptance: 29-March-2019
Abstracts should be submitted in pdf format to Andrea.Lackner at uni-graz.at
For mp4-video submission, please use WeTransfer: www.wetransfer.com and send
the video to Andrea.Lackner at uni-graz.at
Contact:
In case of any problems appearing, questions or requests concerning the
submission, please contact the organizing team: Isabel.Graf at uni-graz.at
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