The Colour Signaling Process In Turkish Sign Language
Türk İşaret Dilinde Renk Adlandırma Süreci

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with the analysis of the signs used to name colors in Turkish Sign Language (TID). The aim of the study was to reveal how color signaling process works in TID and to describe the major linguistics characteristics in terms of arbitrariness, conventionality, iconicity. For the data of the study a corpus consisting of 16 colors was prepared and three hearing and speech impaired people, regardless of their age, education, socio-economic, and socio-cultural background, were randomly chosen to conduct the study. The subjects were asked through written Turkish to express those colors in TID. The analysis revealed that some color signaling in TID proved to be arbitrary and conventional and most of the signs seem to iconic.

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