Browsing Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Scholarly Publications) by Author "Leeson, Lorraine"
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Access to employment for deaf graduates, employees and jobseeking signers: findings from the DESIGNS project
Conama, John; Leeson, Lorraine; Sheikh, Haaris (European Union of the Deaf, 2021) -
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across different signed languages
Leeson, Lorraine (2020)Do deaf signers of different signed languages do reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five signed languages coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs, fingerspelling ... -
Defining meaningful units. Challenges in sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping
Leeson, Lorraine; De Sisto, Mirella; Shterionov, Dimitar; Murtagh, Irene; Vermeerbergen, Myriam (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2021)This paper addresses the tasks of sign segmentation and segment-meaning mapping in the con- text of sign language (SL) recognition. It aims to give an overview of the linguistic properties of SL, such as coarticulation and ... -
Hands in Motion: Learning to Fingerspell in Irish Sign Language (ISL)
Leeson, Lorraine; Sheridan, Sarah (2020)Irish Sign Language uses a one-handed alphabet in which each fingerspelled letter has a unique combination of handshape, orientation, and, in a few cases, path movement. Each letter is used to represent ... -
Irish Sign Language: Ireland's Third Language
Leeson, Lorraine (Cambridge University Press, 2024)Deaf people are typically multilingual and use multimodal resources, i.e. sign, writing and speech, for communication in their everyday lives (Quinto-Pozos & Adam 2013). This is due to the fact that only 5% of all deaf ... -
Online and Kicking: Sign Language Activism via Social Media
Leeson, Lorraine (2019)Online activism in the Irish Deaf community demonstrates leveraging of multimodal linguistic repertories (as per Kusters et al 2017) ; it started as community-led work towards ISL recognition. Some fora are more ISL-led, ... -
Sign Language Interpreting in Ireland
Leeson, Lorraine; Lynch, Teresa; Sheridan, Sarah (Gallaudet University Press, 2024)This chapter documents the development of sign language interpreting (SLI) education and research in Ireland. In 1994, the first cohort of interpreters graduated with a Diploma in Irish Sign Language (ISL)/English Interpreting ... -
Sign Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Europe
Leeson, Lorraine; Rathmann, Christian (2019) -
Sign Languages
Leeson, Lorraine (Council of Europe and European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML), 2019)In 2018, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a resolution on Sign Languages (Resolution 2247). This recognises the thirty plus indigenous sign languages of Europe as natural languages but also ... -
Sign Languages and the CEFR for Languages
Leeson, Lorraine (European Centre for Modern Languages, 2016)