Creating a dictionary of a signed minority language. A bilingualized monolingual dictionary of German Sign Language
- Lexicographers working with minority languages face many challenges. When the language in question is also a sign language, circumstances specific to the visual-spatial modality have to be taken into consideration as well. In this paper, we aim to show and discuss which challenges we encounter while compiling the Digitales Wörterbuch der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DW-DGS), the first corpus-based dictionary of German Sign Language (DGS). Some parallel the challenges minority language lexicographers of spoken languages encounter, e. g. few resources, no written tradition, and having to create one dictionary for all potential user groups, while others are specific to sign languages, e. g. representation of visual-spatial language and creating access structures for the dictionary.
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| Author: | Anke Müller, Gabriele LangerORCiDGND, Felicitas Otte, Sabrina Wähl |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-112598 |
| URL: | https://euralex2022.ids-mannheim.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Proceedings_11.07.2022.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.14618/ids-pub-11259 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-937241-87-6 |
| Parent Title (English): | Dictionaries and Society. Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress, 12-16 July 2022, Mannheim, Germany |
| Publisher: | IDS-Verlag |
| Place of publication: | Mannheim |
| Editor: | Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Stefan Engelberg, Christine Möhrs, Petra Storjohann |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2022/10/06 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Sign language dictionary; bilingualized dictionary; minority language |
| GND Keyword: | Gebärdensprache; Korpus <Linguistik>; Lexikgraphie; Minderheitensprache; Wörterbuch; Zweisprachiges Wörterbuch |
| First Page: | 635 |
| Last Page: | 648 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 420 Englisch |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Conferences, Workshops: | Dictionaries and Society. Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress, 12-16 July 2022, Mannheim, Germany |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-SA - Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |