Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation

Bradford, Anastasia; Michaelis, Susanne Maria; Zeshan, Ulrike

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“…The adoption of several of the Indian signers' variants by the other participants could perhaps be due to the immersion of all of the signers in an environment where Indian Sign Language was the main visual language. This observation is consistent with Bradford et al's (2020) study on the development of the lexicon, where the same pattern of "home advantage" was found. As mentioned above however, our quantitative analyses do not reveal a statistically significant pattern for the overall data set.…”

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“…In summary, while indexical signs seem like effective variants that will be replicated, their fitness still depends on establishing common ground and negotiating the context of their reference. This negotiation depends on interactive conversation, showing how transmission biases and interaction are linked (see for example Zeshan, 2015;Bradford et al's, 2020).…”

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Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

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Cross-signing—the emergence of an interlanguage between users of different sign languages—offers a rare chance to examine the evolution of a natural communication system in real time. To provide an insight into this process, we analyse an annotated video corpus of 340 minutes of interaction between signers of different language backgrounds on their first meeting and after living with each other for several weeks. We focus on the evolution of shared color terms and examine the role of different selectional pressures, including frequency, content, coordination and interactional context. We show that attentional factors in interaction play a crucial role. This suggests that understanding meta-communication is critical for explaining the cultural evolution of linguistic systems.

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Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

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A comparison of spoken and signed lingua franca communication: the case of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and International Sign (IS)

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2021

Journal of English as a Lingua Franca

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This article explores similarities between English as a lingua franca (ELF) and International Sign (IS), two lingua franca phenomena which in the last decades have been subject to increasing, albeit independent, linguistic research. In contrast to spoken intercultural communication, in which English often represents a shared resource that speakers from different linguacultural backgrounds draw on, in the visual-gestural modality no specific sign language has yet gained such global reach. Instead, in many international contexts IS is used: a lingua franca that can be more or less conventionalized and that is not based on one particular sign language. IS use depends on the communicative situation, in which signers flexibly and creatively use different signs from natural sign languages as well as iconic elements and gestures. Despite overt formal differences between ELF and IS, when focusing on the actual communication process, rather than the forms that result from it, the two lingua franca phenomena share many similarities. In fact, both ELF and IS are variable communicative means that get situationally adapted by speakers and signers on the basis of different resources they have at their disposal. Similar discussions about the difficulty of conceptualizing ELF and IS, about the role of multilingual resources, and about interaction processes at play can thus be found in both ELF and IS literature. This insight opens up new possibilities for researchers in the two fields to mutually benefit from the study of lingua franca communication in the other modality, which prompts the need for a cross-modal collaboration between ELF and IS researchers.

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Stabilisation of the lexicon in an emerging jargon: The development of signs to express animate referents in a sign language contact situation

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Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

Distinguishing selection pressures in an evolving communication system: Evidence from color-naming in “cross signing”

A comparison of spoken and signed lingua franca communication: the case of English as a lingua franca (ELF) and International Sign (IS)

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