Sherman Wilcox

Sherman Wilcox

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sherman Wilcox plays a role.

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Subjects Cognition and language | Psycholinguistics | Typology
Subjects Applied linguistics | Phonetics

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2022. Signed language pragmatics. Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1209–1223
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Wilcox, Sherman. 2012. Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication. Developments in Primate Gesture Research, Pika, Simone and Katja Liebal (eds.), pp. 223–240
This chapter investigates the linguistic links between gesture and language, relying on data from signed languages. Data focuses on the developmental routes by which non-linguistic gestures become incorporated into the linguistic system of signed languages. Evidence is presented for two routes: one… read more | Article
Janzen, Terry, Barbara Shaffer and Sherman Wilcox. 2011. Signed language pragmatics. Pragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 278–294
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Wilcox, Sherman. 2009. Symbol and Symptom: Routes from Gesture to Signed Language. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 7, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 89–110
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… read more | Article
Wilcox, Sherman. 2008. Sign and gesture: Towards a new paradigm. Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 273–275
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Wilcox, Sherman and Jill P. Morford. 2007. Empirical methods in signed language research. Methods in Cognitive Linguistics, Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica, Irene Mittelberg, Seana Coulson and Michael J. Spivey (eds.), pp. 171–200
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Wilcox, Sherman and Barbara Shaffer. 2005. Towards a cognitive model of interpreting. Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice, Janzen, Terry (ed.), pp. 27–50
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In this paper I explore the role of gesture in the development of signed languages. Using data from American Sign Language, Catalan Sign Language, French Sign Language, and Italian Sign Language, as well as historical sources describing gesture in the Mediterranean region, I demonstrate that… read more | Article
Wilcox, Sherman. 2002. 11. The iconic mapping of space and time in signed languages. Unfolding Perceptual Continua, Albertazzi, Liliana (ed.), pp. 255–281
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Janzen, Terry, Barbara Shaffer and Sherman Wilcox. 2001. Signed language pragmatics. Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–20
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Wilcox, Sherman. 2001. Foreword. The Evolution of Grounded Communication, Steels, Luc (ed.), p. 
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Hiraga, Masako K., Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox. 1999. Introduction. Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Hiraga, Masako K., Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox (eds.)
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Wilcox, Sherman. 1998. Editorial. Evolution of Communication 2:1, p. 
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Wilcox, Sherman and Phyllis Perrin Wilcox. 1995. The Gestural Expression of Modality in ASL. Modality in Grammar and Discourse, Bybee, Joan L. and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), pp. 135 ff.
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