Compositionality in different modalities: A view from usage-based linguistics

M Pleyer, R Lepic, S Hartmann - International Journal of Primatology, 2024 - Springer
The field of linguistics concerns itself with understanding the human capacity for language.
Compositionality is a key notion in this research tradition. Compositionality refers to the …

Time Is Ripe to Make Interactional Moves: Bringing Evidence from Four Languages across Modalities

A Lepeut, E Shaw - Frontiers in Communication, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Sign language linguistics has largely focused on lexical, phonological, and morpho-
syntactic structures of sign languages, leaving the facets of interaction overlooked. One …

Emergence and evolutions: Introducing sign language sociolinguistics

A Kusters, C Lucas - Sign Language Studies, 2021 - muse.jhu.edu
The very nature of sign languages in society is such that all of the areas of sociolinguistics
are relevant to their study (Schembri and Lucas 2015; Roy and Metzger 2014). Sign …

Interpreters as laminated speakers: Gaze and gesture as interpersonal deixis in consecutive dialogue interpreting

J Vranjes, G Brône - Journal of Pragmatics, 2021 - Elsevier
When dialogue interpreters render an utterance from one language to the other, this can be
viewed as a form of quoting. This is reflected, among others, in the principle of direct …

Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies

G Hodge, SA Goico - Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2022 - research.ed.ac.uk
Many domains of sociolinguistic enquiry have contributed to the development of our
understanding of the sociolinguistics of sign languages, ranging from studies in language …

Some interactional functions of finger pointing in signed language conversations

LN Ferrara - 2020 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Interlocutors participating in conversation collaborate with each other to coordinate their
actions and talk. Research on spoken language conversations has shown that speakers use …

Interactional infrastructure across modalities: a comparison of repair initiators and continuers in British Sign Language and British English

H Lutzenberger, L De Wael, R Omardeen… - Sign Language …, 2024 - muse.jhu.edu
Minimal expressions are at the heart of interaction: Interjections like" Huh?" and" Mhm" keep
conversations flowing by establishing and reinforcing intersubjectivity among interlocutors …

The difference intersubjective grammar makes in protactile DeafBlind communities

T Edwards - Lingua, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past several decades, linguists have accumulated evidence for “engagement
systems”—a type of grammatical system that has the special role of facilitating …

The medium of intersubjectivity

T Edwards - Anthropological Theory, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this article is to contribute to anthropological understandings of intersubjectivity
by foregrounding the role of the environment. I begin by reviewing three key approaches that …

Stance in Flemish sign language: a multimodal and polysemiotic phenomenon

F Andries, G Brône… - Belgian Journal of …, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
In this contribution, we offer a first exploration of stance expressions in Flemish Sign
Language (VGT). define stance as the expression of feelings, attitudes, judgments …