'n Leksikografiese model vir 'n elektroniese tweetalige grondslagfasewoordeboek van Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal en Afrikaans

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study proposes a concept model for an electronic bilingual dictionary of signlanguage and Afrikaans (or English, or any other spoken language) that can beapplied in practice by the De la Bat School for the Deaf in Worcester – or any schoolof similar organisation – to compile a bilingual dictionary in which it is not onlypossible to look up a sign via a written word but also to look up a sign even if the userdoes not necessarily know the written equivalent. This is important as it will meanthat, for the first time in South Africa, a Deaf user would not have to be literate in anywritten language to use a dictionary in his or her own language. At the same time ahearing user would be able to look up a sign of which the meaning is unknown, forexample when a sign is noticed in a conversation or an unknown context. The signlanguage dictionaries currently available in South Africa are little more thanalphabetically arranged (or sometimes thematically arranged) lists in which thewritten language offers the only access to the content.As per introduction the first four chapters provide general discussions of signlanguage, the Deaf in South Africa, lexicography and sign language dictionaries. Thediscussions which follow in the remaining chapters focus on the decisions whichhave to be made in terms of the proposed dictionary's content and design. Thesechapters contain recommendations regarding equivalent relations between signlanguage and Afrikaans, several outer texts which could be included in the framestructure, the characteristics of the electronic database from which the dictionary willbe generated, as well as decisions that have to be made about the microstructure. Inthe last chapter the lexicographic model for an electronic bilingual Foundation Phasedictionary of South African Sign Language and Afrikaans is provided with completeexamples.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University