Emily Shaw
List of John Benjamins publications for which Emily Shaw plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1874-6829
Articles
2023 Chapter 11. W(h)ither the ASL corpus? Considering trends in signed corpus development Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.), pp. 287–308 | Chapter
In this chapter, we discuss logistic and ideological practices used by signed language corpus projects around the world to develop their corpora, starting with Johnston’s early call to develop signed language corpora in 2004. We then outline a brief history of existing American Sign Language… read more
2022 Gesture at the crossroads: Interpreting semiotic fields in a task-based exchange The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages, Lepeut, Alysson and Inez Beukeleers (eds.), pp. 179–211 | Article
Task-based exchanges are known to have multiple co-occurring interactive structures that prompt interlocutors to integrate various semiotic fields (Goodwin 2000). In addition to underlying norms of cooperative interaction, task-based exchanges include joint accomplishment of some activity. In… read more
2009 Gesture and signs through history Gesture 9:1, pp. 35–60 | Article
One group of signs in French Sign Language (LSF) is described in the Dictionnaire des sourds-muets at the end of the 18th century as having in common the form of a cross, placed in front of the face. All of these signs have negative connotations. We identify the etymon of the signs as an emblematic… read more