Abstract Sign Languages (SLs) are employed by deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) people to
communicate on a daily basis. However, the communication with hearing people still faces …

This paper offers a review of research on demonstratives from an interdisciplinary
perspective. In particular, we consider the role of demonstratives in current research on …

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

Sand stories from Central Australia are a traditional form of Aboriginal women's verbal art
that incorporates speech, song, sign, gesture and drawing. Small leaves and other objects …

In this paper, we present arguments for an analysis of indicating verbs, building on Liddell
(2000), as a typologically unique, unimodal fusion of morphemes and pointing gestures …

How do the signs of sign language differ from the gestures that speakers produce when they
talk? We address this question by focusing on pointing. Pointing signs play an important role …

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 …

This article investigates practices used to address recipients during videoconference-
mediated classroom interaction. In the classroom setting studied, the aim is to teach sign …

We report the first study on pronoun use by an under-studied research population, children
with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exposed to American Sign Language from birth by their …

We argue that some properties of sign language grammar have counterparts in non-signers'
intuitions about gestures, including ones that are probably very uncommon. Thus despite the …