Research on Signed/Spoken Language Code switching

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Only with acronyms there is a need for transparency. When the codes are just
codes there is no such need.
Thanks,
    Gerard

On 9/4/07, Lorraine Leeson <leesonl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But why do the acronyms need to be transparent?? This doesn't seem to
> be a necessary condition of naming!
>
> Lorraine
>
>
>
> On 04/09/07, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> > The trouble with abbreviations derived from the spoken language of the
> > country where the SL is used is that they are opaque outside of that
> country
> > or spoken language. BII, NGT, LSF... They have little or no mnemonic
> value.
> >
> > I don't see that it's necessary to stick with purely initial
> three-letter
> > abbreviations just because three letters were enough to distinguish the
> > first few SLs that were scientifically studied: ASL, BSL (both from
> > English-speaking countries), FSL, and OFSL (abbreviated in English by
> the
> > English-speaking linguists).
> >
> > What would be so bad about IndSL, IndonSL, IrSL, IsrSL, and so on?
> >
> > m a m
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