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Mutual intelligibility among the sign languages of Belgium and the Netherlands

2015

AbstractIn an exploratory study of mutual intelligibility between the sign languages of the northern part of Belgium (Flemish Sign Language, VGT), the southern part of Belgium (French Belgian Sign Language, LSFB), and the Netherlands (Sign Language of the Netherlands, NGT), we tested the comprehension of VGT by signers of LSFB and NGT. In order to measure the influence of iconic structures (classifier constructions and constructed action) that linguistic analyses have shown to be similar across different sign languages, two genres were compared: narrative and informative signing. To investigate the effect of the overlap between the spoken languages surrounding the Dutch and Flemish Deaf com…

Cross-language activation and cognitive effects in bimodal bilinguals [Handy connections between signing and speaking]Sign Language LinguisticsnarrativeLinguistics and LanguageHistoryManually coded languageiconicitySign languageSimultaneous constructions in signed language discourseLanguage and Linguisticslanguage.human_languageLinguisticsmutual intelligibilityComprehensionMutual intelligibilityFlemishFlemish Sign Languageviittomakielilanguagesign languagemouthingMouthingIconicityGeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.dictionariesencyclopediasglossaries)
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Innovative pragmatic codes in Ugandan English : a relevance-theoretic account

2013

Published version of an article in the journal: Argumentum. Also available from the publisher at: http://argumentum.unideb.hu/2013-anyagok/bisingoma.pdf Open access The paper investigates innovative pragmatic codes in Ugandan English within the conceptual framework of Relevance Theory (cf. Sperber & Wilson 1986, Wilson & Sperber 2004). Wilson & Sperber (2004) state that an utterance is optimally relevant if it is worth the hearer’s processing effort, and if it is compatible with the speaker’s linguistic abilities and preferences. The reasoning behind these tenets of Relevance Theory can be used to account for the pervasive use of many expressions peculiar to Ugandan English. For example, in…

Ugandan EnglishVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::English language: 020modified expressionsrelevancepragmaticsdiscourse markerscognitive effectscalques
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