Neologisms in New Zealand Sign Language: a case study of COVID-19 pandemic-related signs
- To leverage the Deaf community’s increasing online presence, the web-based platform NZSL Share was launched in March 2020 to crowdsource new and previously undocumented signs, and to encourage community validation of these signs. The platform allows users to upload sign videos, comment on videos and agree or disagree with (often new) signs being proposed. It is managed by the research team that maintains the ODNZSL, which includes the authors. NZSL Share is being used by individuals as well as Deaf community groups to record and share signs of a specialist nature (e.g., school curriculum signs). NZSL Share now has close to 50 actively contributing members. Its launch coincided with the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in New Zealand and so some of the first signs contributed were COVID-19-related, which are the focus of this paper.
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| Author: | Mireille ValeORCiD, Rachel McKeeORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-114423 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798081-013 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-079808-1 |
| ISSN: | 0175-9264 |
| Parent Title (English): | Lexicography of coronavirus-related neologisms |
| Series (Serial Number): | Lexicographica : series maior (163) |
| Publisher: | de Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin/Boston |
| Editor: | Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Ilan Kernerman |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/01/09 |
| Publishing Institution: | Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| Tag: | NZSL Share; New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL); lexical innovation; web-based platform |
| GND Keyword: | COVID-19; Gebärdensprache; Internetportal; Lexikografie; Neologismus; Neuseeland; Pandemie; Terminologie; Übersetzung |
| First Page: | 261 |
| Last Page: | 274 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Lexikografie |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |