Specifics of the Specialized Science and Medical Programs Terminology Development in the Czech Sign Language

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PRUŠA Tomáš PEŇÁZOVÁ Dana KOVAŘÍKOVÁ Dagmar URÍK Milan HURNÍK Pavel

Year of publication 2012
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of the Conference Universal Learning Design, Linz 2012
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Field Linguistics
Keywords medical terminology; sign language
Description Czech sign language is not equipped with scientific sign language terminology for historical reasons. Most specialized signs were initially solved as loans from spoken languages (fingerspelling). The need to expand the Czech sign language vocabulary is growing together with students’ need to understand specialized topics. For this reason, systematization of creation of specialized terminology began.
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