28.1914, Calls: French Sign Language; General Linguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Language Acquisition / Travaux interdiscplinaires sur la parole et le langage (Jrnl)

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Subject: 28.1914, Calls:  French Sign Language; General Linguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Language Acquisition / Travaux interdiscplinaires sur la parole et le langage (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:44:55
From: Joelle Lavaud [joelle.lavaud at lpl-aix.fr]
Subject: French Sign Language; General Linguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics; Language Acquisition / Travaux interdiscplinaires sur la parole et le langage (Jrnl)

Full Title: Travaux interdiscplinaires sur la parole et le langage 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): French Sign Language (fsl)

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2017 

Sign Language, That's How It Is

Sign language: inventory, description, formalisation, practices
Melanie Hamm
Invited editor

''La langue des signes, c'est comme ça'' (''Sign language, that's how it is'')
refers to the book Les sourds, c'est comme ça (the deaf, that's how it is) by
Yves Delaporte (2002). In this book, the world of the deaf, French sign
language, and its specificities are described. One of the particularities of
French sign language is the gesture for ''That's how it is'' , a common
expression for the deaf expressing a certain respectful, non judgmental
distance towards their environment. It is with this same optic, near
scientific probity, simple and precise, that we try to study sign language.

Even if we notice progress in the linguistics of signed language in general,
and French sign language in particular, specifically in the works of Christian
Cuxac (1983), Harlan Lane (1991) or Susan D. Fischer (2008), the linguistic of
sign language remains an under-explored field. Moreover, French sign language
is at risk of disappearing (Moseley, 2010 and Unesco, 2011). But what is that
language? How to define it? What are its mechanisms, its structure, how to
study it, from which angle, by which approach? This silent language questions
a number of the rules of linguistics, such as the universality of phonemes,
and raises numerous issues to which there are yet no satisfactory answers. In
what way is it similar and different from oral languages? Does it only
''belong'' to deaf people? Must it be studied, shared, preserved, recorded
like any language which belongs to the immaterial patrimony of humanity
(Unesco, 2003)? How to teach it? By which means? What does history tell us
about it? What is the future of sign language? What do those most concerned
say about this? Many very contemporary questions are therefore raised.

The issue 34 of the journal ''Travaux Interdisciplinaires sur la Parole et le
Langage'' will try to establish the state of research and to propose an
overview of the different works studying this so singular language, without
locking them up in a single discipline. We are looking for unpublished works
relating to sign language and more particularly French sign language. They
should propose description, formalisation, or outline of the several uses of
signed languages. A comparative approach of the different sign languages,
reflections on variants and variations will also be welcome. Sociolinguistic
considerations, semantics and structures, an etymological study of signs could
also be the subject of articles. Moreover a space will be reserved for
testimony by signing deaf people.

The articles submitted to TIPA journal will be read and evaluated by the
reviewing committee of the journal. They can be submitted in French or English
and can include images and videos (please consult ''author's instructions'' at
https://tipa.revues.org/222). A length of 10 to 20 pages is preferable for
each article or 35,000 to 80,000 characters or 6,000 to 12,000 words.
Recommended average size is around 15 pages. The authors are asked to provide
a summary of the article in its language (French or English; between 120 and
200 words) as well as a two-page summary in the other language (French if the
article is in English or vice versa) as well as 5 key-words in both languages
(French-English). The proposed articles should be sent in .doc format (Word)
and reach the TIPA journal electronically to the following addresses:
tipa at lpl-aix.fr and melanie.hamm at lpl-aix.fr.

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