TY - JOUR
T1 - Are discourse markers related to age and educational background? A comparative account between two sign languages
AU - Gabarró-López, Sílvia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Author
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This paper presents a pilot investigation of two discourse markers, namely PALM-UP and SAME, in French Belgian Sign Language and Catalan Sign Language. The two discourse markers are studied from a cross-linguistic and a cross-generational perspective using two comparable samples of argumentative productions. The analysis shows that the two discourse markers are highly polyfunctional. Although they have language-specific functions, most of these functions are shared between the two languages. Furthermore, the use of the two discourse markers is idiosyncratic in both sign language datasets. In the small-scale pilot study described in this article, factors such as age or level of education do not seem to influence the usage of the two discourse markers in question.
AB - This paper presents a pilot investigation of two discourse markers, namely PALM-UP and SAME, in French Belgian Sign Language and Catalan Sign Language. The two discourse markers are studied from a cross-linguistic and a cross-generational perspective using two comparable samples of argumentative productions. The analysis shows that the two discourse markers are highly polyfunctional. Although they have language-specific functions, most of these functions are shared between the two languages. Furthermore, the use of the two discourse markers is idiosyncratic in both sign language datasets. In the small-scale pilot study described in this article, factors such as age or level of education do not seem to influence the usage of the two discourse markers in question.
KW - Age
KW - Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
KW - Discourse markers
KW - French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)
KW - Level of education
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U2 - 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.019
DO - 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059804517
SN - 0378-2166
VL - 156
SP - 68
EP - 82
JO - Journal of Pragmatics
JF - Journal of Pragmatics
ER -