Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information
Edited by Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 4:1/2 (2001) iv, 302
Penny Boyes Braem
List of John Benjamins publications for which Penny Boyes Braem plays a role.
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Subjects Signed languages
Articles
2023 Chapter 2. In your face: Im/politeness in signed languages, with examples from Swiss German Sign Language (DSGS) Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 27–63 | Chapter
This chapter begins by describing impolite forms of signing reported for many sign languages that seem to be based on the visual modality of this form of communication. Other im/polite conventions are influenced by the setting, register, type of speech act, or the perceived signing ability of… read more
2021 Single-parameter and parameter combination errors in L2 productions of Swiss German Sign Language Sign Language & Linguistics 24:2, pp. 143–181 | Article
This article presents a study of errors made by hearing adult L2 learners of Swiss German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS). As part of a statistical analysis of single-parameter errors, movement was found to be the parameter most susceptible to errors, followed by… read more
2001 Guest Editors’ Preface Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, Bergman, Brita, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (eds.), pp. 3–7 | Miscellaneous
2001 A multimedia bilingual database for the lexicon of Swiss German Sign Language Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, Bergman, Brita, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (eds.), pp. 133–143 | Article
This multimedia database project is the first large-scale collection and description of the signs of Swiss German Sign Language (Deutschschweizerische Gebärdensprache, DSGS). The aim of the database is to gather linguistic information on the DSGS lexicon which can serve as a basis for future… read more
2001 Sign language text transcription and analyses using ‘Microsoft Excel’ Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information, Bergman, Brita, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (eds.), pp. 241–250 | Article
This is a short explanation of how we have used the commercial software program ‘Microsoft Excel’ for transcriptions of Swiss German Sign Language monologues and conversations. Although the transcription is not directly linked to video, it has the advantage that various kinds of searches and… read more