Event Description in Sign Language and Gesture

手语和手势的活动描述

• 批准号: 2234889
• 负责人: Natasha Abner
• 金额: $ 44.46万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Event; Description; Sign; Language; Gesture

A central role of human communication is to talk about the world and its surroundings. This is true of spoken language communication, but it is also true of sign language communication and of the human communication that takes place in gesture, the natural movements of our hands, face, and body when humans communicate. This project investigates how signers and gesturers communicate about everyday activities and events. Potential impacts of the project include strengthening the effectiveness of sign language instruction and interpreter education, improving the training available to other service providers such as speech language pathologists, and creating better language and communication interventions for deaf children and their families. Research has shown that speakers systematically and consistently incorporate informational details about events. This project investigates how humans talk about events using other communication systems -- specifically, sign language and gesture. Research participants are video recorded providing descriptions of everyday activities and events, and these recordings undergo annotation and analysis for how certain aspects of those activities and events are incorporated into the communicative description. The scope of the project includes communication in a sign language by deaf signers, communication in gesture by hearing speakers, and communication in a sign language by hearing individuals who are learning it as a second language. Project findings are of interest to linguists, sign language and gesture scholars in other disciplines, as well as language teachers and human service providers in a range of fields. This research contributes to a holistic understanding of how humans communicate in the multiplicity of systems available to them. The project also offers research opportunities for junior scholars from under-represented backgrounds and features research engagement activities with the Deaf community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

人类交流的核心作用是谈论世界及其周围环境。口语交流是正确的，但是在人类沟通时，手语交流和人类的自然运动是在我们手，脸部和身体的自然运动中发生的人类交流也是如此。该项目调查了签名者和男性化者如何就日常活动和事件进行交流。该项目的潜在影响包括增强手语教学和口译员教育的有效性，改善对言语语言病理学家等其他服务提供商可用的培训，并为聋哑儿童及其家人创建更好的语言和交流干预措施。研究表明，说话者系统，一致地纳入了有关事件的信息细节。该项目调查了人类如何使用其他通信系统（特别是手语和手势）谈论事件。研究参与者是视频记录的，提供了日常活动和事件的描述，这些录音对这些活动和事件的某些方面如何纳入交流描述进行了注释和分析。该项目的范围包括聋人签名者用手语的交流，通过听力说话者的手势交流，以及通过听取将其作为第二语言学习的个人来沟通的。在其他学科中的语言学家，手语和手势学者以及语言教师和人类服务提供商中，项目的发现引起了人们的关注。这项研究有助于对人类在可用的系统中如何沟通的整体理解。该项目还为来自代表性不足的背景的初级学者提供了研究机会，并与聋人社区提供了研究参与活动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准的评估来支持的。