WOCAL 10 was fully online. Registration was required, but was free to participants living or working in Africa; all others paid a registration fee of €50.
Presentations are viewable by going to the WOCAL10 Conference Programme here and logging in (i.e., only for those who previously registered). The workshop videos will remain online for a few weeks after the conference.
| SATURDAY • JUNE 5, 2021 • All times in Central European Timezone (GMT +1) |
| 6:00-7:30 pm Online Reception for registered attendees |
| MONDAY • JUNE 7, 2021 |
| 3:00 pm CET Plenary: Dorothy Gordon ( |
| 4:00 pm WORKSHOP OPENING Session theme: African sign languages in use: across borders and in the home |
| 4:10 pm Amandine le Maire Mobilities/Immobilities of deaf people in Kakuma Refugee Camp |
| 4:30 pm Kidane Admasu Language Attitude and Language Shift among Youngsters Deaf Ethiopian immigrant in United States |
| 4:50 pm • Question & Answer |
| 5:00 pm Raika Wolff ME FINISH BADO – Language Usage and Communication Experiences of Deaf Students of Fr. Ouderaa School in Nyang’oma, Kenya |
| 5:20 pm Marco Stanley Nyarko Deaf parenting in rural and urban communities in Ghana: a case study of Adamorobe community and Koforidua |
| 5:40 pm • Question & Answer |
| 5:50 pm Bruno Dibi De la langue des signes d’Amérique à la langue des signes d’Amérique utilisée en Côte d’Ivoire : une étude comparative du lexique |
| 6:00 pm Yves Beosso Socio-linguistic variations is Chadian sign language |
| 6:10 pm • Question & Answer |
| Until 7:00 pm • Socializing in Zoom break out rooms |
| TUESDAY • JUNE 8, 2021 |
| 3:00 pm CET Plenary: Anna Marie Diagne (interpreted in International Sign) |
| 4:00 pm Daily workshop opening Session theme: Lexical variation and new methods |
| 4:10 pm Anne Baker, Andries van Niekerk, Kate Huddlestone Studying Lexical Variation In Sign Languages: the Case of South African Sign Language |
| 4:30 pm Susan Njeyiyana, Kate Huddlestone Lexical variation and change in a South African Sign Language school-lect |
| 4:50 pm Tanja Diederich Variation of lexical signs in sign languages of the Dogon area (Mali): A corpus analysis |
| 5:10 pm • Question & Answer, Discussion about variation |
| 5:30 pm Manolis Fragkiadakis Quantifying variation in movement and location: comparing the lexicons of American and Ghanaian Sign Language |
| 5:50 pm Abdelhadi Soudi, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Elmostafa Bou-Souf Sign Language Documentation in Emergency Situations and Crisis Zones : a Crowdsourcing Solution |
| 6:10 pm • Question & Answer |
| Until 7:00 pm • Socializing in Zoom break out rooms |
| WEDNESDAY • JUNE 9, 2021 |
| 1:00 pm CET First meeting of the WOCAL Committee on African Sign Languages (Zoom link will be announced in workshop on Monday & Tuesday, or email us: wocal.slworkshop@gmail.com) |
| 3:00 pm CET Plenary: Ongaye Oda (interpreted in International Sign) |
| 4:00 pm Daily workshop opening Session theme: Documentation and language comparisons |
| 4:10 pm Annie Risler, Alain Gebert The Dictionary for Seychellois Sign Language: a tool for the preservation, transmission and development of Seychelles’ heritage |
| 4:30 pm Koumba Richie Tatiana, Blandine Siety L’écologie des langues des signes à Libreville |
| 4:50 pm • Question & Answer |
| 5:00 pm Timothy Mac Hadjah The history of Ghanaian Sign Language: A linguistic perspective |
| 5:20 pm Enrico Dolza, Andre Ebouaney, Felicité Majeu Defo Contrastive analysis between the French Sign Language and the Sign Language used in two Francophone deaf school in Cameroon |
| 5:40 pm • Question & Answer |
| 5:50 pm N’Jok Aloysius, Atangana Tsala Marcellin Working Towards Developing and Promoting a National Sign Language in a Challenging Environment |
| 6:00 pm Fabian Bross A brief sketch of the sentence structure of Burkina Faso Sign Language (BFSL) |
| 6:10 pm • Question & Answer |
| Until 7:00 pm • Socializing in Zoom break out rooms |
| THURSDAY • JUNE 10, 2021 |
| 3:00 pm CET Plenary: Martha Qorro (interpreted in International Sign) |
| 4:00 pm Daily workshop opening Session theme: Language origins and language of expression |
| 4:10 pm Ingeborg Groen Anger expression in GSL |
| 4:30 pm Hope E. Morgan, Evans N. Burichani, Jared O. Osome Lexical intensifiers in Kenyan Sign Language: use, motivation, & etymology |
| 4:50 pm • Question & Answer |
| 5:00 pm Mariana Martins, Amaré Soares, Marcos de Barros The incorporation of emblematic gestures in the emerging sign language of Guinea-Bissau |
| 5:20 pm Nargess Asghari Iconicity in the Semantic Domain of Animal Terms in Berbey Sign Language (Mali) |
| 5:40 pm • Question & Answer |
| 5:50 pm Marta Morgado “Have you ever seen a snake?”: Personal experience narratives in village sign languages |
| 6:10 pm Steve Parkhurst The Use of Relational Space in Deaf Song |
| 6:30 pm • Question & Answer |
| Until 7:00 pm • Socializing in Zoom break out rooms |
| FRIDAY • JUNE 11, 2021 |
| 3:00 pm CET Plenary: Woinshet Girma, Addis Ababa University (presented International Sign, interpreted in English) |
| 4:00 pm Daily workshop opening Session theme 1: African sign languages & deaf students in the classroom |
| 4:10 pm Margaret Odhiambo Sign Language and Deaf Education |
| 4:20 pm Adelsa Gomes Tavares Portuguese language learning by deaf students |
| 4:30 pm • Question & Answer |
| Session theme 2: Sentential structure |
| 4:40 pm Angoua Tano, Mamadou Coulibaly L’accord spatial des verbes ou agreement verbs dans la Langue des Signes de Bouakako: prospection et esquisse de description |
| 4:55 pm Amy Palmer, Anne Baker, Kate Huddlestone Developing a sentence repetition test for the evaluation of deaf children’s use of South African Sign Language |
| 5:10 pm • Question & Answer |
| 5:20 pm • WORKSHOP EVALUTATION/POLL |
| 5:30 pm • WORKSHOP CLOSING |
| 5:40 PM (1) Breakout rooms for socializing (2) Second meeting of the WOCAL Committee on African Sign Languages. Workshop participants are welcome to attend this business meeting |
| Until 7:00 pm • Socializing in Zoom break out rooms |
| SATURDAY • JUNE 12, 2021 |
| 3:00 pm – 5:00pm CET 🖐🏾🖐🏻🖐🏼🖐🏽🖐🏿 HANDS! Festival 2021 on African Sign Languages and Deaf Studies 🖐🏿🖐🏼🖐🏾🖐🏿🖐🏽 see more information here |
This workshop is supported by funding from AFRICA 2020 and Leids Universiteits Fonds.