The term homesign has been used to describe the signing of deaf individuals who have not
had sustained access to the linguistic resources of a named language. Early studies of child …

The very nature of sign languages in society is such that all of the areas of sociolinguistics
are relevant to their study (Schembri and Lucas 2015; Roy and Metzger 2014). Sign …

Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics.
Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early …

In this article, I argue that centering multimodal practices is important in the study of human
communication and sociality, and becomes particularly relevant in the presence of …

The descriptive contribution of this paper is a typology of mouthing constructions in 37
signed languages and an analysis of the ideologies and resources that affect their …

ABSTRACT Providence Island Sign Language is an indigenous sign language of Colombia,
used in the Caribbean Island of Providence (Spanish: Providencia). First described in the …

Investigations of quotatives are essential for understanding how humans talk about talking.
However, comparison of quotatives and other communicative phenomena have been …

Enactment is a frequent depictive strategy used to denote referents. Its referential functions
are increasingly well-documented cross-linguistically, notably in sign languages. A lesser …

This study focuses on the practice of simultaneous cointerpreting in the media, specifically
examining the interaction between a hearing interpreter (HI) and a deaf interpreter (DI). The …

Pragmatic-interactional aspects of present-day language use as well as historical language
change have come to be regarded as an important source of evidence for theories of …