This study examines the developmental routes by which gesture is codified into a linguistic system in the context of the natural signed languages of the deaf. I suggest that gestures follow two routes as they codify, and thus that signed languages provide evidence of how material which begins its developmental life external to the conventional linguistic system, as spontaneous or conventional gestures, is codified as language. The Italian Sign Language modal form ‘impossible’ is studied in detail, exploring the developmental route that led from Roman gestures, through liturgical gestures as depicted in medieval Italian art, through everyday Italian and Neapolitan gestures to its modal meaning.
2023. Pre-service special educators’ levels of readiness to learn sign language. Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies 13:2 ► pp. e202311 ff.
Napoli, Donna Jo, Jami Fisher & Gene Mirus
2023. Taboo in Sign Languages,
Quinto-Pozos, David & Robert Adam
2022. Multilingualism and Language Contact in Signing Communities. In The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 172 ff.
2024. A Toolbox of Methods for Gesture Analysis. In The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies, ► pp. 182 ff.
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2022. Multilingualism. In The Cambridge Handbook of Language Contact, ► pp. 27 ff.
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