2022 Volume 31 Issue 1 Pages 22-34
The paper considered schema and semiosis of illustrations and explanatories in Japanese-JSL (Japanese Sign Language) dictionaries to develop sign language lexicography using sign language semiotics in addition to sign language linguistics. Concretely, the schema and semiosis with illustrations and explanations of JSL signs were analysed on the basis of various theory of reference proposed by, for example, Goodman (1968), Bennet (1974), Beardsley (1978), suggesting the schema and semiosis with synecdoche-generalisation of denotation of uncertain objects, which were referred by combinations of illustraitons and explanatories, by readers of sign language dictionaries. The results would contribute to improve the Japanese-JSL or JSL-Japanese dictionaries with videos and other electrical contents.
