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Sign language used predominately in France and French-speaking Switzerland
French Sign Language is the sign language of deaf and hard-of-hearing people in France. LSF is the first language used by French citizens, and is used as a second language by a significant number of hearing and deaf French people. Although the exact number of users are uncertain, there are between 80,000 and 120,000 deaf users of LSF, out of a total of approximately 280,000 users. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: French Sign LanguageA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Disjunctive discourse referents in French Sign LanguageInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: HieroglyphicaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Interactive editing in French Sign Language dedicated to virtual signers: requirements and challengesCited 36 times
- Go sideways: Charles-Michel de l'ÉpéeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Schools for the deafA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Interactive editing in French Sign Language dedicated to virtual signers: requirements and challenges
Pluractionality, iconicity, and scope in French Sign Language
Negative incorporation in French and American sign language
Discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Impersonal human reference in French Sign Language (LSF)
Pointing and Self-reference in French and French Sign Language
The Political Uses of Sign Language: The Case of the French Revolution
Genetic relatedness of Tunisian Sign Language and French Sign Language
🆕 Influential since 2022
Disjunctive discourse referents in French Sign Language
FLexSign: A lexical database in French Sign Language (LSF)
Crossing boundaries: Using French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and multimodal French corpora for contrastive, translation and interpreting studies
French Sign Language/French Translation Studies in France: A Mini Review
Prosodic marking of contrast in LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language)
📚 Books worth reading
HieroglyphicaHorapollo, Jan Cornelis De Pauw · 1517
Signes du tempsFrank Corless, Ralph Gaskell · 1986
Silent PoetryNicholas Mirzoeff · 2001
Vocabulaire de sémiologie de l'appareil locomoteurSylvie Dionne · 1990- 📕La langue des signesBill Moody · 1900
- 📕La structuration syntaxique de langage gestuel de jeunes sourds françaisJacqueline Billant · 1982
Surdité et sociétéDaniel Daigle · 2006
Signposts FrenchEdith Baer · 1982
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