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Sign language of Ireland, used primarily in Ireland
Irish Sign Language is the sign language of Ireland, used primarily in Ireland. It is also used in Northern Ireland, alongside British Sign Language (BSL). Irish Sign Language is more closely related to French Sign Language (LSF) than to BSL, though it has influence from both languages. It has influenced sign languages in Australia and South Africa, and has little relation to either spoken Irish or English. ISL is unique among sign languages for having different gendered versions due to men and women being taught it at different schools all over Ireland. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Irish Sign LanguageA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Embodied Music: Interpreting Songs and Sounds through Irish Sign LanguageInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Irish Sign LanguageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Linguistic imperialism: still a valid construct in relation to language policy for Irish Sign LanguageCited 27 times
- Go sideways: Centre for Deaf Studies, DublinA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Languages of IrelandA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Linguistic imperialism: still a valid construct in relation to language policy for Irish Sign Language
Embodiment in Irish Sign Language Passives
Lexical Frequency Analysis of Irish Sign Language
Reappropriation of Gendered Irish Sign Language in One Family
Teaching Irish Sign Language in Contact Zones: An Autoethnography
Deaf Activists and the Irish Sign Language Movement, 1980–2017
The Deaf community and Irish sign language
The impact of language education policies on Irish sign language in Irish deaf education
🆕 Influential since 2022
Embodied Music: Interpreting Songs and Sounds through Irish Sign Language
Comparative Evaluation and Utilization of Convolutional Neural Network Architectures for Irish Sign Language Recognition
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of language ideologies in parliamentary debates about the recognition of Irish sign language
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Irish Sign LanguageLorraine Leeson, John I. Saeed · 2011
- 📕Mouth actions in sign languagesMohr, Susanne (Linguist) · 2014
Irish sign language communicationPatrick A. Matthews · 2010- 📕Guidance on providing British sign language/English and Irish sign language/English interpreters under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. · 2004
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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