Introducing the Metaphor in Creative Sign Language project

The project builds on work conducted in creative sign language (Sutton-Spence 2005, Bauman, Nelson and Rose 2007). Due to its highly interdisciplinary nature, the research will bridge the gap between other fields such as general linguistics, especially metaphor studies in cognitive linguistics (Lakoff and Johnson 1980), literary criticism and Deaf studies.

The fundamental problem in the research of creative signing to date is the lack of substantial materials. It tended to be a qualitative rather than quantitative research matter. This project will overcome this problem by collecting a substantial amount of signed poems and stories and will create the first large-scale corpus in BSL literature.

This research project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

For more information about this project please visit the project website:http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/research/sites/micsl/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• British Sign Language
• BSL
• Sign Language Poetry
• Sign Language Linguistics