Deaf signs

This dissertation addresses a special group of signs in Czech Sign Language - we call them Specific Signs. There are total of 90 of them being introduced and analyzed in this paper. The larger part of the Specific Signs is divided into 17 categories. In each category there are signs similar in meaning and therefore often misused in the context by non-native signers. An 18th category contains signs which have the same manual components but have different oral components. Another 39 signs are analyzed individually, they are not part of any category. Each Specific Sign has a sequence number and there is a photo documentation showing what the sign looks like (the movement, the process of sign and the type of oral component). Furthermore, for each sign there is a written explanation of its manual and non-manual component, an approximation of its general meaning and the most frequent translation. The use of the sign is shown in examples from commonly signed conversations. These examples are translated into written Czech and the sign order, used in the signed sentence, is listed as well