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。对于口语交流来说是这样，对于手语交流以及通过手势进行的人类交流也是如此，手势是人类交流时手、脸和身体的自然运动。该项目研究手语者和手势者如何交流日常活动和事件。该项目的潜在影响包括加强手语教学和口译员教育的有效性，改善言语病理学家等其他服务提供者的培训，以及为聋哑儿童及其家庭创造更好的语言和沟通干预措施。研究表明，演讲者系统地、一致地包含有关事件的信息细节。该项目研究人类如何使用其他通信系统（特别是手语和手势）谈论事件。研究参与者被录制视频，提供日常活动和事件的描述，并且这些录音经过注释和分析，以了解如何将这些活动和事件的某些方面纳入交流描述中。该项目的范围包括聋人手语者的手语交流、听力正常者的手势交流以及正在学习手语作为第二语言的听力者的手语交流。项目研究结果引起了其他学科的语言学家、手语和手势学者以及各个领域的语言教师和人类服务提供者的兴趣。这项研究有助于全面了解人类如何在多种可用系统中进行通信。该项目还为来自代表性不足的背景的初级学者提供研究机会，并以聋人社区的研究参与活动为特色。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。