Corpus Linguistics has revolutionised the world of language study and is an essential
component of work in Applied Linguistics. This book, now in its second edition, provides a …

Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within
the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (;;;). Varied semiotic repertoires …

Differences in language use and structures between signed and spoken languages have
often been attributed to so-called language “modality.” Indeed, this is derived from the …

This paper addresses several problematic scientific practices in psycholinguistic research.
We discuss challenges that arise when working with minority languages, such as the notion …

Many domains of sociolinguistic enquiry have contributed to the development of our
understanding of the sociolinguistics of sign languages, ranging from studies in language …

Linguistics as a discipline only began to consider signed languages as legitimate, fully
fledged linguistic systems from the 1960s onwards. However, comparative work on signed …

ABSTRACT Providence Island Sign Language is an indigenous sign language of Colombia,
used in the Caribbean Island of Providence (Spanish: Providencia). First described in the …

For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral
productions, was the only way to investigate the human language capacity. As an …

Constructed action is a referential strategy whereby signers and speakers use their bodies
and/or voices to depict referents and their actions. Using a corpus-based study, this chapter …

Abstract The French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) corpus is the cornerstone of a unique
multilingual data system that includes four distinct corpora. The first is a reference corpus …