Browsing 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)

    • Aspects of verbal valency in Irish Sign Language 

      Leeson, Lorraine (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2002)
      The principle aim of this thesis is the identification of some aspects of verbal valency patterns for Irish Sign Language (ISL). The data drawn on for this study came from a variety of sources, including authentic data ...

    • 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, ...

    • SIF II and SIGNALL II 

      Leeson, Lorraine; Nolan, Brian; Sheikh, Haaris (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      The Centre for Deaf Studies has been recently funded under the SIF II framework and is embarking on an exciting phase of research. The collaborative research allows for three main research strands: (1) a cognitive-functional ...

    • 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)

    • What the Pandemic Means: Perspectives from the Trinity Long Room Hub Covid-19 Blog Collection 

      Erickson, Jacob; Lyons, Donna; Grile, Courtney Helen; Devitt, Ann; Slote, Samuel; Patten, Eve; Payne, Elspeth; Ahmed, Sahar; Hendley Rooney, Daryl; Leeson, Lorraine (Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, 2021)
      In the spring of 2020, when the pandemic hit our shores, we were told to stay home. We listened to public health advice and to experts debating the measures required to protect us. Scientific terminology crept into our ...