Sign language

Sign languages designate not loud verbal mutual agreement systems for communication . These can either accompany spoken language or replace them with facial expressions , gestures and body language . Examples are:

• Diving signs , underwater signs of divers
• Drum languages of indigenous peoples
• Signal languages of flags and traffic signs
• Nonverbal communication

Sign language is often incorrectly referred to as sign language, which can be traced back to an incorrect translation ( sign language ). Sign languages, however, are natural languages ​​that are equal to spoken languages ​​in all linguistic aspects.

The following communication systems, which differ from sign languages ​​and are not natural languages, are also used to help in situations with hearing and deaf people and in educational situations:

• Signs accompanying spoken language (LBG) that are used in addition to spoken language.
• Sign-based communication

See also

• Character (disambiguation)
• semiotics
• Sign language in the Cistercian order

literature

• Hadumod Bußmann : Lexicon of Linguistics (= Kröner's pocket edition . Vol. 452). 2nd completely revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-520-45202-2 .
• Wolfgang Dressler: Basic questions in linguistics . WUV-Universitätsverlag, Vienna 2006. p. 20.

Web links

Wiktionary: Sign language  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations