Documenting the Language of the Indonesian Sign Community: The BISINDO Corpus in Five Clips

Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change.

SOAS Linguistics Webinars
21 October 2020

Nick Palfreyman
(University of Central Lancashire)

Abstract: Indonesian Sign Language (Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia, or BISINDO) has been used since at least the 1950s, and was named in the 2000s. Since 2010, Nick has worked with local deaf people to create the BISINDO Corpus, with data from over 130 signers of different ages in six cities across the Indonesian archipelago. In this presentation, he will show and discuss five clips from the BISINDO Corpus to illustrate some of the findings of our analysis, along with some of the methodological challenges faced on the way. The presentation also features a contribution from his colleague Muhammad Isnaini, who is research co-ordinator at PUPET, the Indonesian Deaf Research Centre.