A Proposal of Annotation and Transcription Scheme for Sign Language Interaction

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26704005
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute of Informatics
• Principal Investigator: Bono Mayumi 国立情報学研究所, コンテンツ科学研究系, 准教授 (50418521)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 日本手話 / 手話相互行為 / マウジング / 即興手話表現 / 手話言語記述手法 / トランスクリプト / ジェスチャー単位 / 言いよどみ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we attempted to propose a new scheme for annotating and transcribing sign language interactions. The method we proposed is based on 'Gesture Unit' originally came from Gesture studies, which is nearly equal to transcription system for phonetic features in spoken interaction, e.g. extended final particle. Thereby, it is made possible to observe phenomena of 'hesitation' and 'word-search' in signed interaction. Furthermore, we published several papers on the original concept of 'improvisational signing' as a communicative strategy of word-searching.

Free Research Field

コミュニケーション学