Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 (2026)
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[Sign Language & Linguistics, 29:1/2] Expected October 2026. ca. 150 pp.
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
- Cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguisticsOlga Capirci & Sabina Fontana |
- Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic approachChiara Bonsignori, Elena Tomasuolo, Pasquale Rinaldi & Virginia Volterra |
- Italian Sign Language: Searching for common ground between the sociosemiotic perspective and computational annotationGaia Caligiore |
- Uses of the pointing sign directed at the signer in Finnish Sign LanguageSanna Nordlund |
- The emergence of Czech Sign LanguageLenka Okrouhlíková |
- Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using Finnish Sign LanguageAnna Puupponen & Laura Kanto |
- The role of “intersensoriality” in the process of poetic translation from Italian into Italian Sign Language (LIS) and vice versaErika Raniolo |
- Discourse genres in French Sign Language: A qualitative and quantitative corpus studyMarie-Anne Sallandre, Antonio Balvet & Brigitte Garcia |
- Usage-based grammars and sign languages: Evidence from Auslan, British Sign Language, and New Zealand Sign LanguageAdam Schembri |
- Constructing meaning through translation: A cognitive linguistic analysis of ASL texts about cancerNaomi Sheneman |
- Action bias in describing object locations by signing childrenBeyza Sümer & Aslı Özyürek |
- Complex syntactic constructions in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: A study of complement and relative clauses(University of Amsterdam, 2025)Evgeniia Khristoforova |
- Patterns of iconicity across sign languages and gestures(University of Cologne, 2025, in cooperation with the University of Birmingham)Annika Schiefner |
- The competition between arguments for prominence in German Sign Language(University of Cologne, 2025)Thiago de Souza Santos |
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