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Direct linkCohen-Koka, Shirit; Nir, Bracha; Meir, Irit – Sign Language Studies, 2023
This article discusses the function of a particular feature of sign language--mouth action--as it is expressed in various discourse contexts. Specifically, we examine forms of mouthing and mouth gesture as they are used in signed narrative and expository texts, highlighting the signers' choices during the production of these two text types. We…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Human Body, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Compton, Sarah – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
This paper examines the ways in which parents of multilingual deaf children (are able to) participate in annual individualized education plan (IEP) meetings mediated by both signed and spoken language interpreters. Data are drawn from an ethnographic, discourse-analytic study conducted in a U.S. school district and informed by the ethnography of…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Deafness, Individualized Education Programs, Ethnography
Johnson, Jennifer T. – L2 Journal, 2017
Symbolic competence, "the ability to actively manipulate and shape one's environment on multiple scales of time and space" (Kramsch & Whiteside, 2008, p. 667), offers researchers and educators the ability to understand how learners position themselves. This positioning involves a vying for semiotic resources as a means to question…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Deafness, Hearing (Physiology), Power Structure
Shaw, Emily P. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is an examination of gesture in two game nights: one in spoken English between four hearing friends and another in American Sign Language between four Deaf friends. Analyses of gesture have shown there exists a complex integration of manual gestures with speech. Analyses of sign language have implicated the body as a medium…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Discourse Analysis, Semiotics
Barberà, Gemma; Zwets, Martine – Sign Language Studies, 2013
In both signed and spoken languages, pointing serves to direct an addressee's attention to a particular entity. This entity may be either present or absent in the physical context of the conversation. In this article we focus on pointing directed to nonspeaker/nonaddressee referents in Sign Language of the Netherlands (Nederlandse Gebarentaal,…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Foreign Countries
Thumann, Mary Agnes – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines depiction in American Sign Language (ASL) presentations. The impetus for this study came from my work as an instructor in an interpreter education program. The majority of ASL/English interpreters are second language learners of ASL, and many of them find some features of ASL challenging to learn. These features are…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Nonverbal Communication, Second Languages, Deafness
