The 1st International Seminar on Cross-signing between the UK and Japan

Date: Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
Place: Heriot-Watt University (the Scott Suite teaching room, Edinburgh Business School, No. 4 building on the map)
https://www.hw.ac.uk/documents/edinburgh-campus-map.pdf

13:00-13:05 Greetings from Robert Adam (Heriot-Watt University, the UK) (IS/BSL)
13:05-13:35 Talk (1) Tomohiro Okada (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) (IS)
"Mouthing in Japanese Sign Language conversation: A study of the frequency of use."
13:35-13:50 QA session
13:50-14:00 10 min. break
14:00-14:30 Talk (2) Keiko Sagara (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan) (IS)
"Diachronic change and variation within and between sign languages in Japan,
Taiwan and South Korea: The impact of language contact."
14:30-14:45 QA session
14:45-15:00 15 min. break
15:00-15:30 Talk (3) Robert Adam (Heriot-Watt University, the UK) (IS/BSL)
"Current issues in sign language contact."
15:30-15:45 QA session
15:45-17:00 Discussion on Cross-signing data collection 2023/2024 (UK-JAPAN)
Mayumi Bono (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) (English/JSL)