“…The weather forecast is a particular discourse type aimed at the general public and likely to be familiar to most people. It functions within a fairly rigid framework, whereby listeners/ viewers have expectations about the sorts of words (e.g., weather types, temperatures, geographical locations, and times of the day/days of the week), images (e.g., a map of a country overlain with weather symbols), and gestures (e.g., points to areas of the map) that will occur (Moore Mauroux, 2016). This discourse type was chosen not only because it was used in previous first-exposure studies of spoken language (Gullberg et al, 2010(Gullberg et al, , 2012, but also because it could be adapted for presentation in Swedish Sign Language and still retain its familiarity for viewers.…”