Gabriele Langer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Gabriele Langer plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 7. Exploring regional variation in the DGS Corpus Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics, Wehrmeyer, Ella (ed.), pp. 192–218 | Chapter
The DGS Corpus was collected in order to document German Sign Language (DGS) for linguistic research, compile the corpus-based dictionary DW-DGS and provide a cultural resource for the language community. Regional aspects played a key role in participant selection, data collection tasks and… read more
2022 Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground: Iconic modification in German Sign Language (DGS) Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), pp. 265–288 | Chapter
Sign Languages provide ways to create iconically motivated signs, that is, signs whose meaning is directly or indirectly connected to an underlying mental image expressed by the depictive elements of the sign’s form. While signs can be created and used to depict and therefore show what is meant,… read more