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summary
‘Connecting apples and oranges. Conjunctions in Icelandic Sign Language.’
Keywords: conjunctions, language variation, Icelandic sign language, loan word, finger
loci, body movements, language attitudes
The Icelandic Sign Language (ÍTM) community is small but variation in the language is
evident, e.g. in word order and conjunctions. The community is often devided into three
age-related groups. Each group got educated within different teaching methods which
influenced their language.
There are three ways to connect phrases and sentences in ÍTM. Signers can use finger
loci, body movements and/or specific conjunction signs. The first two are considered to
be the original ways of connecting phrases and sentences in ÍTM. The conjunction signs
are considered loans from Icelandic, borrowed by theachers of deaf children because of
their lack of knowledge of the language and the original ways of connecting phrases and
sentences in the language. Loans from Icelandic are by many signers considered undesir-
able. All three groups can use the conjunction signs for emphasis but for conjunction
purposes the youngest group uses them considerably more than the other two groups.
Whether the conjunction signs are “correct sign language” is often a topic of discussion
within the two older groups, but the youngest group considers them a part of their lang-
uage and no less important or correct than any other signs in the language.
Elísa Guðrún Brynjólfsdóttir Kristín Lena Þorvaldsdóttir
Rannsóknastofu í táknmálsfræðum Rannsóknastofu í táknmálsfræðum
Vesturbergi 78 Samskiptamiðstöð heyrnarlausra og
IS-111, Reykjavík, ÍSLAND heyrnarskertra
egb1@hi.is Grensásvegi 9
IS-108, Reykjavík, ÍSLAND
kria@shh.is
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