The document summarizes the 9th Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research conference. It was held in Florianopolis, Brazil in 2006 and attracted researchers from 33 countries studying various sign languages. The conference included 45 papers and 3 posters presented on topics ranging from the development of sign language studies to new areas of research. It was the first time the conference was held outside of North America and Europe.
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Language and Thought The Sapir-Whorf HypothesisOne of the most .docxDIPESH30
Language and Thought: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
One of the most important and long-standing debates in studies of language and
behavior involves the relationship between language and thought processes. This
relationship is particularly important to the cross-cultural study of language
because each culture is associated with a given language as a vehicle for its expression.
How does culture influence language? And how does language influence
culture?
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, also referred to as linguistic relativity, suggests
that speakers of different languages think differently, and that they do so because
of the differences in their languages. Because different cultures typically have different
languages, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is especially important for understanding
cultural differences (and similarities) in thought and behavior as a function
of language.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is important to verify, because if correct, it suggests
that people of different cultures think differently, just by the very nature,
structure, and function of their language. Their thought processes, their associations,
their ways of interpreting the world—even the same events we perceive—
may be different because they speak a different language and this language has
helped shape their thought patterns. This hypothesis also suggests that people who
speak more than one language may actually have different thought patterns when
speaking different languages.
Many studies have examined language–cognition issues since Edward Sapir
and Benjamin Whorf first proposed their hypothesis in the 1950s. In one of the
earliest language studies, Carroll and Casagrande (1958) compared Navajo and
English speakers. They examined the relationship between the system of shape classification
in the Navajo language and the amount of attention children pay to
shape when classifying objects. Similar to the Japanese language described earlier
in this chapter, the Navajo language has the interesting grammatical feature that
certain verbs of handling (for example, “to pick up,” “to drop”) require
special linguistic forms depending on what kind of object is being handled. A total
of 11 such linguistic forms describe different shapes—round spherical objects, round
thin objects, long flexible things, and so forth. Noting how much more complex this
linguistic feature is in Navajo than in English, Carroll and Casagrande (1958)
Culture, Language, and Communication 241
suggested that such linguistic features might play a role in influencing cognitive processes.
In their experiment, they compared Navajo- and English-dominant children to
see how often they used shape, form, or type of material to categorize objects. The
Navajo-dominant children were significantly more likely to categorize by shape than
were the English-dominant children. In the same study, Carroll and Casagrande
(1958) also reported that the performance of low-income African American Englishspeaking
children was similar ...
Elina Tapio, University of Jyväskylä, Eurocall 2011 conference in Nottingham: This presentation summarises my ongoing PhD research with the title The English language in the everyday life of Finnish Sing Language users - a multimodal view on interaction.
Language and Thought The Sapir-Whorf HypothesisOne of the most .docxDIPESH30
Language and Thought: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
One of the most important and long-standing debates in studies of language and
behavior involves the relationship between language and thought processes. This
relationship is particularly important to the cross-cultural study of language
because each culture is associated with a given language as a vehicle for its expression.
How does culture influence language? And how does language influence
culture?
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, also referred to as linguistic relativity, suggests
that speakers of different languages think differently, and that they do so because
of the differences in their languages. Because different cultures typically have different
languages, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is especially important for understanding
cultural differences (and similarities) in thought and behavior as a function
of language.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is important to verify, because if correct, it suggests
that people of different cultures think differently, just by the very nature,
structure, and function of their language. Their thought processes, their associations,
their ways of interpreting the world—even the same events we perceive—
may be different because they speak a different language and this language has
helped shape their thought patterns. This hypothesis also suggests that people who
speak more than one language may actually have different thought patterns when
speaking different languages.
Many studies have examined language–cognition issues since Edward Sapir
and Benjamin Whorf first proposed their hypothesis in the 1950s. In one of the
earliest language studies, Carroll and Casagrande (1958) compared Navajo and
English speakers. They examined the relationship between the system of shape classification
in the Navajo language and the amount of attention children pay to
shape when classifying objects. Similar to the Japanese language described earlier
in this chapter, the Navajo language has the interesting grammatical feature that
certain verbs of handling (for example, “to pick up,” “to drop”) require
special linguistic forms depending on what kind of object is being handled. A total
of 11 such linguistic forms describe different shapes—round spherical objects, round
thin objects, long flexible things, and so forth. Noting how much more complex this
linguistic feature is in Navajo than in English, Carroll and Casagrande (1958)
Culture, Language, and Communication 241
suggested that such linguistic features might play a role in influencing cognitive processes.
In their experiment, they compared Navajo- and English-dominant children to
see how often they used shape, form, or type of material to categorize objects. The
Navajo-dominant children were significantly more likely to categorize by shape than
were the English-dominant children. In the same study, Carroll and Casagrande
(1958) also reported that the performance of low-income African American Englishspeaking
children was similar ...
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1. Theoretical Issues in Sign
Language Research 9
Sign Languages: spinning and unraveling the past, present and future.
TISLR9, forty five papers and three posters from the
9o TheoReTIcaL ISSueS In SIgn
Language ReSeaRch confeRence
florianopolis, Brazil, December 2006.
Edited by
Ronice Müller de Quadros
2. Presentation
The TISLR is the world’s most important international conference for sign language
studies. The nine edition of the conference attracted researchers who work in various
sign languages that have different and similar linguistic typologies. The studies
encompass various areas of linguistics from formal to applied studies. The conference
have exhibited a significant development of studies of an increasing number of sign
languages. This growth in research, shared and published through the editions of
TISLR, gives visibility to sign languages from countries such as Brazil and creates
opportunities for comparative analysis. It has thus become an event that goes beyond
borders. The TISLR 9 was a space for socialization of studies about the world’s
different sign languages that seeks explanations for linguistic facts considering the
visual-spatial modality that is specific to these languages. For the first time, the event
was being held outside North America and Europe and included the participation of
researchers from throughout the world, and in particular, Brazilian researchers who
have been studying Brazilian sign language to make this a special edition of TISLR.
We had researchers represented from 33 different countries in Brazil, from December
6th to 9th, in 2006, at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
The theme of the 9th edition of TISLR was the development of sign language
studies from the 1960’s until today with a look at lines of research for the future. The
conference title was: Sign Languages: spinning and unraveling the past, present and
future. There were presentations from the scholars who conducted the first sign
language studies, as well as researchers who are indicating new directions for study.
This volume brings 45 papers e 3 posters presented during the conference available in
an electronic version without any cost. This is possible, because we had financial
support from Brazilian Federal funding from CNPq, CAPES, MEC/SEESP, FINEP and
CORDE. Giving continuity to previous editions, interlinguistic studies were on the
agenda, because they contributed to a delineation of the linguistic universals of the
visual-spatial modality in relation to the oral-auditory modality.
Ronice Müller de Quadros
1
3. Summary
A Lexical Comparison of Sign Languages in the Arab World
Kinda Al-Fityani
Carol Padden
Locative Constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TID)
Engin Arik
Mouth morphemes in ASL: A closer look
J. Albert Bickford
Kathy Fraychineaud
A cross-linguistic study of word segmentation in three sign languages
Diane Brentari
Ronnie Wilbur
The Effects of ASL on Co-speech Gesture in Hearing Native Signres
Shannon Casey
Karen Emmorey
Portuguës (L2) e LIbrAS (L1): Desenvolvimento de estruturas de posse na interlíngua
Adriana Cristina Chan-Vianna
The non- (existent) native signer: sign language research in a small deaf population
Brendan Costello
Javier Fernández
Alazne Landa
Inalienable Possession in british Sign Language
Jordan Fenlon
Kearsy Cormier
The systems of numerals in Catalan Sign language (LSC) and Spanish Sign Language (LSE):
a comparative study
María del Pilar Fernández Viader
Mariana Fuentes
Sign description: how geometry and graphing serve linguistic issues
Michael Filho
Annelies Braffort
The morpho-phonetic structuring of LSF (French Sign Language)
Brigitte Garcia
Dominique Boutet
Gaëlle Roch
Short Term Memory and Sign Languages: reduced resources and Full Languages
Carlo Geraci
Marta Gozzi
Costanza Papagno
Carlo Cecchetto
4. Narrative in sign language: a view on classifiers
Zilda Maria Gesueli
American Sign Language – Sentence Reproduction Test: Development & Implications
Raylene Paludnevièiene.
Peter C. Hauser
Ted Supalla
Daphne Bavelier
Agreement verbs in Korean Sign Language (KSL)
Sung-Eun Hong
Symmetry in Sign Language Haiku
Michiko Kaneko
Sign Phonology Acquisition in Brazilian Sign Language
Lodenir Becker Karnopp
Sign Language Biological Motion Perception Perception of sign language
and human actions
Heather Patterson Knapp
Hansang Cho
David P. Corina
How to describe mouth patterns in the Danish Sign Language Dictionary
Jette Hedegaard Kristoffersen
Janne Boye Niemelä
Sign Language Acquisition Studies: Past, Present And Future
Diane Lillo-Martin
Variation in ASL: The Role of Grammatical Function
Ceil Lucas
Robert Bayley
Sociolinguistic Variation in NZSL Numerals
David McKee
Rachel McKee
George Major
An innovative proposal of a Phonological Coefficient of Gesture-Sign Proximity to analyse
gestures production in Brazilian Sign Language.
Mecca, F.F.D.N; Lichtig, I.
Modality and Language Acquisition: Resources & Constraints in Early Sign Learning
Richard P. Meier
The morphological realization of semantic fields
Irit Meir
5. re-Thinking Sign Language Verb Classes: the body as subject
Irit Meir
Carol Padden
Mark Aronoff
Wendy Sandler
Considering Sign Language and Deaf Culture in Computer Mediated Communication
(CMC) Environments:Initial Explorations and Concerns
Maria Mertzani
The Speaker’s Eye Gaze Creating deictic, anaphoric and pseudo-deictic spaces of reference
Laurence Meurant
“Construction in Eritrean Sign Language: an Anthropological Linguistic Perspective” Confe-
rence paper from TISLr-9, Florianopolis, brazil
Poster Session
Rezenet Moges
Cooperation in Interpretation
Jemina Napier
Perspective and the Use of Signing Space: Spatial Strategies in Descriptive Discourse.
Nilsson
Wordlist Comparisons
Stephen Parkhurst
Possession and existence in three sign languages1
Deborah Chen Pichler
Katharina Schalber
Julie Hochgesang
University of Zagreb
Ronnie B. Wilbur
Martina Vulje
Ljubica Pribanić
Child-Directed Signing in ASL and Children’s Development of Joint Attention
Ginger Pizer
Richard P. Meier
Deixis, Anaphora and Highly Iconic Structures: Crosslinguistic Evidence on American
(ASL), French (LSF) and Italian (LIS) Signed Languages
Elena Pizzuto
Paolo Rossini
Marie-Anne Sallandre
Erin Wilkinson
bilingual acquisition of German Sign Language and written German: Developmental asyn-
chronies and language contact
Carolina Plaza Pust
J. W. Goethe
6. back to back(wards) and moving on: on agreement, auxiliaries and verb classes in sign languages
Ronice Müller de Quadros
Josep Quer
The Semantics, Syntax and Phonology of Adverbial Nonmanuals in Austrian and American
Sign Language
Katharina Schalber
Donovan Grose
Sign Language Archeology: Integrating Historical Linguistics with Fieldwork on Young Sign
Languages
Ted Supalla
Images of Deaf Culture and Identity in Sign Language Poetry
Rachel Sutton-Spence
Is Hong Kong Sign Language a discourse-configurational language?
Felix SZE
Acquiring verb agreement in HKSL: Optional or obligatory?
Gladys Tang
Scholastica Lam
Felix Sze
Prudence Lau
Jafi Lee
Gesture and ASL L2 Acquisition
Sarah Taub
Dennis Galvan
Pilar Piñar
Susan Mather
An electronic dictionary of Danish Sign Language
Thomas Troelsgård
Jette Hedegaard Kristoffersen
Do hands sign? Do mouths speak?
Bencie Woll
Cheryl Capek
Dafydd Waters
Ruth Campbell
Mairead MacSweeney
Mick Brammer
Phil McGuire
Tony David
Early acquisition in deaf and hearing native signers: insights from the bSL MacArthur-bates CDI
Tyron Woolfe
roots, leaves and branches – The typology of sign languages
Ulrike Zeshan