Sandra Smith

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sandra Smith plays a role.

Articles

Cormier, Kearsy, Sandra Smith and Zed Sevcikova Sehyr 2015 Rethinking constructed actionSign Language & Linguistics 18:2, pp. 167–204 | Article
We aim to demonstrate the importance of defining linguistic phenomena by using constructed action or CA (i.e. a stretch of discourse that represents one role or combination of roles depicting actions, utterances, thought, attitudes and/or feelings of one or more referents) as an example. The… read more
Smith, Sandra and Rachel Sutton-Spence 2008 Adult-child interaction in BSL nursery — getting their attentionSign Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 119–139 | Article
This paper reports on attention-getting strategies during adult–child interaction in a BSL-language nursery. The data come from a small study conducted at the School of Education at Leeds University, in which deaf children in a Deaf nursery run by Deaf adults were filmed. Deaf adults and deaf… read more
Smith, Sandra and Rachel Sutton-Spence 2005 Adult–child interaction in a BSL nursery — getting their attention!Language Acquisition, Baker, Anne E. and Bencie Woll (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
This paper reports on attention-getting strategies during adult–child interaction in a BSL-language nursery. The data come from a small study conducted at the School of Education at Leeds University, in which deaf children in a Deaf nursery run by Deaf adults were filmed. Deaf adults and deaf… read more