Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within
the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (;;;). Varied semiotic repertoires …

We aim to demonstrate the importance of defining linguistic phenomena by using
constructed action or CA (ie a stretch of discourse that represents one role or combination of …

Languages offer various ways to present what someone said, thought, imagined, felt, and so
on from their perspective. The prototypical example of a perspective-shifting device is direct …

Taking its cue from sign languages, this paper proposes that the recruitment and
composition of body actions provide evidence for key properties of language and its …

This article describes how deaf signers of Auslan (a deaf signed language of Australia)
coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs and English …

In spoken and signed language discourse, periods of gestural enactment, or constructed
action, appear sequentially and simultaneously with linguistic signs. In the domain of signed …

Phonetic reduction arises in the course of typical language production, when language
users produce a less clearly articulated form of a word. An important factor that affects …

Indicating verbs can be directed toward locations in space associated with their arguments.
The primary debate about these verbs is whether this directionality is akin to grammatical …

We address the issue of deixis–anaphora in sign language (SL) discourse, focusing on the
role of eye-gaze. According to the Semiological Approach, SL structuring stems from a …

This paper presents a study of the use of constructed action (CA) in the stories and
conversations of adult Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) signers of different ages. CA is …