[Corpora-List] Meta Question regarding sentiment/opinion/reputation was Re: Campagne d=?windows-1252?Q?=92=E9tiquetage_?=en sentiments de tweets et blogs

[John F Sowa]

On 11/19/2012 9:51 AM, Alexander Osherenko wrote:
> I would differentiate between sentiment, opinion, reputation etc. not
> using a lexicon but orientate much more towards a general and intuitive
> psychological disposition...

When analyzing any issue about distinctions among words, I believe
it's important to use all available resources.  In my note, I started
with the definition from the M-W online because it summarized the
distinctions observed by professional lexicographers on the basis
of a corpus of citations, their many years of experience, *and* their
"general and intuitive psychological dispositions".  But I continued
with an analysis that went beyond the M-W definition.

On 11/19/2012 10:05 AM, Angus Grieve-Smith wrote:
> In my research I've seen Deaf people with very low reading abilities
> in spoken languages.  As I understand it, they are representative
> of the majority of Deaf people, even in literate countries like the United States.

I'm not going to quibble about the word 'most'.  The point I was
trying to make is that there are enough ASL users who can read
English that one would expect to find ASL signs (or combinations
of signs) that can express the common distinctions in English.

AG-S
> More on topic, in American Sign Language and Mexican Sign Language,
> there are major differences between ad hoc borrowings and fully
> lexicalized signs, and the lexicalized signs don't always correspond
> to what signers may have been reading.  So Trevor's point about this
> unnamed sign language is valid: the fact that it distinguishes between
> the three concepts is evidence that the distinction is not confined
> to one community.

I agree.  People who are bilingual in two spoken languages may use
a phrase in one to express the distinctions they learned in the other.
They may also borrow words.  But they can express the same distinctions
in either language.

I would also cite evidence of infants born to a deaf and a hearing
parent.  They grow up bilingual in a signed and a spoken language.
At each stage of language development, they are equally fluent in
their ability to express themselves in either modality.  See

Petitto, Laura-Ann (2005) How the brain begets language: On the neural
tissue underlying human language acquisition, in J. McGilvray, ed.,
_The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky_, Cambridge: University Press,
pp 84-101.

In her research, Petitto studied infants that were bilingual in all
pairs of four languages:  English, French, ASL, and LSQ (Langue
des Signes Québécoise).

Interesting sidelight:  infants born to profoundly deaf parents
babble with their hands, but not vocally.

John Sowa

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