The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages
Edited by Alysson Lepeut and Inez Beukeleers
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 36] 2022. v, 248 pp.
Alysson Lepeut
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alysson Lepeut plays a role.
Title
Subjects Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2022 Who’s got the upper hand? A cross-linguistic study on overlap in VGT and LSFB The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages, Lepeut, Alysson and Inez Beukeleers (eds.), pp. 212–246 | Article
A large body of research has highlighted the tight, carefully organised temporal coordination of interaction. When taking turns, people tend to minimise the occurrence of gaps and overlaps (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson 1974). Within the field of signed language linguistics, however, there is… read more
2022 When hands stop moving, interaction keeps going: A study of manual holds in the management of conversation in French-speaking and signing Belgium Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach, Gabarró-López, Sílvia and Laurence Meurant (eds.), pp. 290–321 | Article
This study explores moments in signed and spoken conversation when manual production is on hold and its resulting interactive ramifications. Typically, the temporal structure of gesture and sign can be decomposed into a stream of distinct manual phases. There are moments, however, when this… read more
2022 On the semiotic diversity of language: The case of signed languages The Semiotic Diversity of Language: The Case of Signed Languages, Lepeut, Alysson and Inez Beukeleers (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
Language is complex in many respects. When conceived as a system that is to be analysed at all levels of linguistic structure, it is interpreted as a static and abstract phenomenon in which the rules are disconnected from their context of use. However, the ability to do language, construed as a… read more