Sökning: "linguistic sign"

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  1. 1. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language : From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs

    Författare :Marianna Hatzopoulou; Brita Bergman; Richard P. Meier; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deaf children; Greek Sign Language; personal pronouns; pointing; pointing signs; reference; sign language acquisition; Sign language; Teckenspråk; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation explores the emergence of the linguistic use of pointing as first- and non-first-person pronoun in Greek Sign Language. Despite the similarity in form between the pointing gesture and pronominal pointing signs, children acquiring sign language pass through the same stages and acquire personal pronouns at about the same age as children acquiring spoken language. LÄS MER

  2. 2. A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages

    Författare :Josefina Safar; Johanna Mesch; Olivier Le Guen; Victoria Nyst; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yucatec Maya Sign Language; Yucatec Maya; Mexico; Mesoamerica; shared sign language; village sign language; language emergence; language evolution; sociolinguistic variation; gesture-sign interface; grammaticalisation; lexicalisation; cardinal numbers; size-and-shape specifiers; translanguaging; noun-verb distinction; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with a high incidence of deafness. LÄS MER

  3. 3. A Universal of Human Interaction? – Manual Movement as Interactional Practice in Spoken and Signed Conversation

    Författare :Paul Cibulka; Göteborgs universitet; Göteborgs universitet; Gothenburg University; []
    Nyckelord :human interaction; gesture; sign; sign language; conversation; speakership; self-touching;

    Sammanfattning : When humans interact, they may make use of a range of resources, such as head movements, facial expressions, manual movement, body posture and speech. It is assumed that participants both produce and perceive this stream of information in a differentiated way: Some segments are attended to as belonging to the content of the discourse while others are rather backgrounded and may serve to regulate the interaction in terms of speakership and turn-taking. LÄS MER

  4. 4. Teckenspråk i taktil form : Turtagning och frågor i dövblindas samtal på teckenspråk

    Författare :Johanna Mesch; Brita Bergman; Arnfinn Vonen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Deaf-blind; tactile sign language; conversation analysis; turn-taking; question; Sign language; Teckenspråk; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Sammanfattning : The present study focuses on turn-taking and questions in conversations between deaf-blind persons using tactile sign language, i.e. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC): BUOYS, PALM-UP and SAME : Variation, functions and position in discourse

    Författare :Sílvia Gabarró-López; Laurence Meurant; Gemma Barberà; Belgium Université de Namur; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Discourse markers; genres; segmentation of signed discourse; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to contribute to the field of discourse analysis by focusing on three discourse marker candidates, namely buoys, PALM-UP and the sign SAME, in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). The first issue in the study of discourse markers is their identification, which has been based on three criteria: to be syntactically optional, to be non-truth-conditional and to constrain the inferential mechanisms of interpretation processes. LÄS MER