Written representation of Sign Languages: issues (still) to be addressed
Sign Languages (SL) do not have a writing system and cannot be written phonographically. The consequences of this ünscriptability" are at the center of the work of Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (1960-2011), carried out from 2000. Over the past 10 years, technological advances have made it easier to enter data from the body (thanks to motion capture), to annotate multilinearly multimodal corpora and to maintain the links between annotations and videos (thanks to software such as ELAN). However, these technologies do not make up for the lack of a system of graphic representation and the questions raised by Elena are still relevant today. Now, it is possible to draw up a list of characteristics that a transcription system should have. Developing a system that brings together these specificities is a challenge that linguists cannot meet alone: it is in multidisciplinarity, and particularly in working on the graphic aspects of writing, that the solution seems to lie. In fact, the GestualScript team has employed this "grapholinguistic" approach to develop Typannot, a typographic transcription system for SLs and for co-verbal gestures.
%0 Journal Article
%1 bianchini2021reprsenter
%A Bianchini, Claudia S.
%D 2021
%J Cognition, Représentation, Langage CoReLa
%K Typannot myown sign-languages
%N 19 (2)
%P 1-37
%R 10.4000/corela.13190
%T Représenter les langues des signes sous forme écrite : questions qui ont besoin (encore aujourd’hui) d’être posées.
%X Written representation of Sign Languages: issues (still) to be addressed
Sign Languages (SL) do not have a writing system and cannot be written phonographically. The consequences of this ünscriptability" are at the center of the work of Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (1960-2011), carried out from 2000. Over the past 10 years, technological advances have made it easier to enter data from the body (thanks to motion capture), to annotate multilinearly multimodal corpora and to maintain the links between annotations and videos (thanks to software such as ELAN). However, these technologies do not make up for the lack of a system of graphic representation and the questions raised by Elena are still relevant today. Now, it is possible to draw up a list of characteristics that a transcription system should have. Developing a system that brings together these specificities is a challenge that linguists cannot meet alone: it is in multidisciplinarity, and particularly in working on the graphic aspects of writing, that the solution seems to lie. In fact, the GestualScript team has employed this "grapholinguistic" approach to develop Typannot, a typographic transcription system for SLs and for co-verbal gestures.
@article{bianchini2021reprsenter,
abstract = {Written representation of Sign Languages: issues (still) to be addressed
Sign Languages (SL) do not have a writing system and cannot be written phonographically. The consequences of this "unscriptability" are at the center of the work of Elena Antinoro Pizzuto (1960-2011), carried out from 2000. Over the past 10 years, technological advances have made it easier to enter data from the body (thanks to motion capture), to annotate multilinearly multimodal corpora and to maintain the links between annotations and videos (thanks to software such as ELAN). However, these technologies do not make up for the lack of a system of graphic representation and the questions raised by Elena are still relevant today. Now, it is possible to draw up a list of characteristics that a transcription system should have. Developing a system that brings together these specificities is a challenge that linguists cannot meet alone: it is in multidisciplinarity, and particularly in working on the graphic aspects of writing, that the solution seems to lie. In fact, the GestualScript team has employed this "grapholinguistic" approach to develop Typannot, a typographic transcription system for SLs and for co-verbal gestures.},
added-at = {2024-05-19T23:12:03.000+0200},
author = {Bianchini, Claudia S.},
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journal = {Cognition, Représentation, Langage [CoReLa]},
keywords = {Typannot myown sign-languages},
language = {French},
number = {19 (2)},
pages = {1-37},
timestamp = {2024-05-19T23:12:03.000+0200},
title = {Représenter les langues des signes sous forme écrite : questions qui ont besoin (encore aujourd’hui) d’être posées.},
year = 2021
}