@inproceedings{moiselle-leeson-2022-language,
    title = "Language Planning in Action: Depiction as a Driver of New Terminology in {I}rish {S}ign {L}anguage",
    author = "Moiselle, Rachel  and
      Leeson, Lorraine",
    editor = "Efthimiou, Eleni  and
      Fotinea, Stavroula-Evita  and
      Hanke, Thomas  and
      Hochgesang, Julie A.  and
      Kristoffersen, Jette  and
      Mesch, Johanna  and
      Schulder, Marc",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the LREC2022 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources",
    month = jun,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2022.signlang-1.21/",
    pages = "139--143",
    abstract = "In this paper, we examine the linguistic phenomenon known as {\textquoteleft}depiction', which relates to the ability to visually represent semantic components (Dudis, 2004). While some elements of this have been described for Irish Sign Language, with particular attention to the {\textquoteleft}productive lexicon' (Leeson {\&} Grehan, 2004; Leeson {\&} Saeed, 2012; Matthews, 1996; O`Baoill {\&} Matthews, 2000), here, we take the analysis further, drawing on what we have learned from cognitive linguistics over the past decade. Drawing on several recently developed domain-specific glossaries (e.g., STEM1, Covid-192, political domain, Sexual, Domestic and Gender Based Violence (SDGBV)-related vocabulary) we present ongoing analysis indicating that a deliberate focus on iconicity, in particular, elements of depiction, appears to be a primary driver. We also consider the potential implications of the insights we intend to gain from Deaf-led glossary glossary development work in the context of Machine Translation goals, for example, for work in progress on the Horizon 2020 funded SignON project."
}