Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages
Edited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 (2018) v, 216 pp.
Gemma Barberà
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gemma Barberà plays a role.
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Subjects Electronic/Multimedia Products | Signed languages | Theoretical linguistics
2023 Chapter 8. Studying microdiachronic change with the Catalan Sign Language corpus: A case study on anaphoric chains in narratives Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.), pp. 219–240 | Chapter
The Catalan Sign Language (LSC) corpus of the Catalan Academy of Sciences and Humanities, which is under development, includes annotated data from three different age groups of signers, and allows for the study of microdiachronic change, namely language change across generations. In this… read more
2023 Chapter 3. Politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): Mitigation of criticisms in spontaneous discourse in LSC Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 65–98 | Chapter
This paper focuses on politeness in Catalan Sign Language (LSC), concretely on criticisms. The main goal is to analyze linguistic mitigation, specifically through the discourse strategy that consists of expressions for restricting opinions. The data comes from a TV show in LSC, which features… read more
2018 Nominal referential values of semantic classifiers and role shift in signed narratives Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages, Hübl, Annika and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 251–274 | Chapter
Bringing together the areas of dynamic semantics and signed discourse, this article focuses on the dynamic potential of referring expressions, such as semantic and limb classifiers, and role shift constructions. On the basis of the Catalan Sign Language version of the Aesop’s fables, a qualitative… read more
2018 Impersonal human reference in sign languages: Introduction and questionnaire Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages, Barberà, Gemma and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), pp. 183–203 | Introduction
2018 Agent-backgrounding in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages, Barberà, Gemma and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr (eds.), pp. 334–348 | Article
This paper examines backgrounding strategies for human agents in Catalan Sign Language, that is, constructions featuring human agents that are non-referential. We identify and analyze four types of agent-backgrounding strategies: subjectless constructions, indefinite pronouns, the impersonal… read more
2017 Searching for imperatives in European sign languages Imperatives and Directive Strategies, Van Olmen, Daniël and Simone Heinold (eds.), pp. 111–156 | Chapter
This article presents the first results of a pilot project aiming at analyzing how European sign languages realize a syntactic domain that is very solid, likely to be grammaticalized in any language but very poorly described or not described at all for sign languages: the imperative. Our… read more
2016 Indefiniteness and specificity marking in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) Sign Language & Linguistics 19:1, pp. 1–36 | Article
Bringing together the areas of sign language semantics-pragmatics interface and discourse reference, this article offers a description of how indefiniteness and (non‑)specificity is encoded in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). By using a combined methodology of corpus data and grammatical tests, the… read more
