Medical Signbank as a model for sign language planning?: a review of community engagement

• Autores: Jemina Napier, George Major, Lindsay Ferrara, Trevor Johnston
• Localización: Current issues in language planning, ISSN 1466-4208, Vol. 16, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 279-295
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper reviews a sign language planning project conducted in Australia with deaf Auslan users. The Medical Signbank project utilised a cooperative language planning process to engage with the Deaf community and sign language interpreters to develop an online interactive resource of health-related signs, in order to address a gap in the health lexicon of Auslan. The goal of this paper is to evaluate the outcome of the bottom-up language planning model that was used in this context, and to make recommendations for similar future sign language planning projects.