Laurence Meurant

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Laurence Meurant plays a role.

Title

Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach

Edited by Sílvia Gabarró-López and Laurence Meurant

Special issue of Languages in Contrast 22:2 (2022) v, 192 pp.

Subjects Comparative linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Gabarró-López, Sílvia and Laurence Meurant 2022 Contrasting signed and spoken languages: Towards a renewed perspective on language Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach, Gabarró-López, Sílvia and Laurence Meurant (eds.), pp. 169–194 | Introduction

For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, was the only way to investigate the human language capacity. As an introduction to this first volume of Languages in Contrast devoted to the comparison of spoken and signed languages, we propose to… read more

Meurant, Laurence 2022 Put another way: Reformulation as a window into discourse and interaction in LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages, Lepeut, Alysson and Inez Beukeleers (eds.), pp. 145–178 | Article

Reformulation involves saying something again in a different way. Because of its metalinguistic nature (Rabatel 2017), combined with its general aim of clarifying the utterance, we propose to consider the act of reformulation as offering a window to the way interlocutors process and adjust… read more

Meurant, Laurence, Aurélie Sinte and Sílvia Gabarró-López 2022 A multimodal approach to reformulation: Contrastive study of French and French Belgian Sign Language through the productions of speakers, signers and interpreters Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach, Gabarró-López, Sílvia and Laurence Meurant (eds.), pp. 322–360 | Article

Reformulation is remarkably frequent in discourse and has been the subject of much work in spoken languages, both on written and oral data. Because of its metalinguistic nature, combined with its general aim of clarifying an expression, the act of reformulation offers a window to the way… read more