Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way?
Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully …

Cross-linguistic studies of tactile sign language are still not widely performed internationally.
For this study, four deafblind informants in two different tactile sign languages, Swedish Sign …

Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily
actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences …

Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics.
Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early …

Sign language interpreters onstage at public and political events have recently become
more visible in the linguistic landscapes of many countries. Accessibility principles and …

There are age-related differences in signers of British Sign Language (BSL) and evidence
that BSL is changing. Here we explore attitudes of BSL signers towards age-related …

While several comparative studies have analyzed the effectiveness of various large
language models (LLMs), most of them were technical (ie, comparing execution time, among …

Multiple approaches can be used to communicate public health messages through mass
media. It is unclear which approaches are superior for meeting the needs of the general …

In the Gurindji community of Kalkaringi in Northern Australia the shared practices of
everyday communication employed by both hearing and deaf members of the community …

This paper presents an interpretative interview study that explores a song signer's
motivations and language ideologies as they emerge in translanguaging between …