Are discourse markers related to age and educational background? A comparative account between two sign languages

Gabarró-López, Sílvia

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.019

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“…In this way, visible bodily actions help speakers maintain the orderliness of conversation in spoken language contexts (Mondada 2007;Streeck 2009a;Kamunen 2018) and signed language contexts (e.g., Coates & Sutton-Spence 2001;McCleary & Leite 2013;Girard-Groeber 2015;de Vos et al 2015). In addition, such actions can be polyfunctional, expressing either multiple pragmatic meanings or combined with referential meanings (e.g., Johnston 1992;Jokinen 2009;Streeck 2009a;Healy 2012;Lepeut 2018;submitted;Gabarró-López 2020; see also Goodwin 1986).…”

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Some interactional functions of finger pointing in signed language conversations

Ferrara

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Interlocutors participating in conversation collaborate with each other to coordinate their actions and talk. Research on spoken language conversations has shown that speakers use bodily gestures, in addition to speech, to regulate their interaction. The current study expands on this research by investigating how signed language users finger point to express interactional meanings. Studies of pointing in signed languages have largely focused on referential functions, as signers frequently point to refer to themselves and others, as well as visible and invisible referents. However, this study demonstrates how signers also finger point to deliver information, cite previous contributions, seek responses, manage turns, and give feedback. These interactional meanings are important, just as identifying discourse referents is important. Language theory should be able to accommodate this complexity of language in conversation, which involves an interplay between different types of semiosis (description, depiction, indexicality) in an inclusive, systematic way.

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