Sociolinguistic Variation, Language Change and Contact in the British Sign Language (BSL) lexicon
Sociolinguistic Variation, Language Change and Contact in the British Sign Language (BSL) lexicon
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英国手语 (BSL) 词典中的社会语言变异、语言变化和联系
DOI：
10.1075/sll.18.1.08sta
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发表时间：
2013
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影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
R. Stamp
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作者：
R. Stamp
车贴语表现出相当大的区域词汇差异。先前的研究结果表明，自从电视上引入车贴语以来，区域差异有所减少（Woll等，1991），区域联系有所增加（Woll, 1987）。基于这些发现，本项目旨在研究车贴语的词汇变异和变化及其与区域接触的关系。根据BSL语料库项目数据（Schembri等人，正在审查中），分析了颜色、国家、数字和英国地名标志的区域差异，以考虑它们与手语者的年龄、性别、学校位置、社会阶层、种族、教学经验和语言背景（手语者是否有聋人或听力正常的父母）的相关性。结果表明，年轻的手语使用者可能会使用越来越少的区域差异变体来达到水平。方言接触和长期的语言适应被认为是水平化的促进因素（Trudgill, 1986）。为了研究这是语言变化的可能解释，来自不同地区背景的25对车贴语使用者参与了会话“Diapix”任务（Van Engen et al., 2010）和理解任务。对会话数据的观察表明，尽管关于车贴语区域变体理解程度的证据相互矛盾（例如，Kyle & Allsop, 1982; Woll et al., 1991），但参与者相互理解没有困难。来自不同地区的手语者往往依靠与手语同时产生的英语口型来消除地区手语的歧义。结果还表明，参与者在理解伯明翰和伦敦品种方面表现最好。词汇适应被发现是最小的，这表明车贴语的语言变化主要不是受到与其他变体接触的影响，而是语言变化似乎是最近语言传播变化的结果（即，聋哑儿童学校的关闭）。
BSL exhibits considerable regional lexical variation. Results from previous studies suggest that there has been a reduction in regional differences since the introduction of BSL on television (Woll et al., 1991) and increased regional contact (Woll, 1987). Based on these findings, this project aims to investigate lexical variation and change in BSL and its relationship to regional contact. Regional variation in the signs for colours, countries, numbers and UK place names were analysed from the BSL Corpus Project data (Schembri et al., under review) to consider their correlation with signers’ age, gender, school location, social class, ethnicity, teaching experience and language background (whether the signer has deaf or hearing parents). The results suggest that levelling may be taking place with younger signers using a decreasing variety of regionally distinct variants. Dialect contact and long-term linguistic accommodation are considered to be contributing factors in levelling (Trudgill, 1986). To investigate this as a possible explanation for language change, 25 pairs of BSL signers from different regional backgrounds were involved in a conversational ‘Diapix’ task (Van Engen et al., 2010) and a comprehension task. Observation of the conversational data reveals that, despite conflicting evidence as to the degree of comprehension of BSL regional varieties (e.g., Kyle & Allsop, 1982; Woll et al., 1991), participants had no difficulties understanding one another. It appears that signers from different regions often rely on English mouthing produced simultaneously with signing to disambiguate the meaning of regional signs. Results also suggest that participants performed best comprehending Birmingham and London varieties. Lexical accommodation was found to be minimal suggesting that language change in BSL is not influenced primarily by contact with other varieties but rather that language change appears to be the result of recent changes in language transmission (i.e., the closure of schools for deaf children)
影响因子：
1.8
作者：
Adam Schembri (Author)
通讯作者：
Adam Schembri (Author)