TY - JOUR
T1 - A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
T2 - DGS, LSC, LSFB and PJM
AU - Gabarró-López, Sílvia
AU - Kuder, Anna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 John Benjamins Publishing Company.
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - This paper presents a study of four recurrent gestures: sweeping away, holding away, brushing away and throwing away. These forms have so far only been studied for spoken languages and are said to form the ‘family of Away gestures’, which is semantically motivated by the effect of actions of removing or keeping away of things. Our corpus-based study aims to investigate these forms in four sign languages: Catalan, French Belgian, German, and Polish. We select and study a data sample that lasts approximately three hours. Our findings reveal the frequency, functions, and the lexicalisation status of the forms across the four studied languages.
AB - This paper presents a study of four recurrent gestures: sweeping away, holding away, brushing away and throwing away. These forms have so far only been studied for spoken languages and are said to form the ‘family of Away gestures’, which is semantically motivated by the effect of actions of removing or keeping away of things. Our corpus-based study aims to investigate these forms in four sign languages: Catalan, French Belgian, German, and Polish. We select and study a data sample that lasts approximately three hours. Our findings reveal the frequency, functions, and the lexicalisation status of the forms across the four studied languages.
KW - away-family
KW - Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
KW - corpus linguistics
KW - French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)
KW - German Sign Language (DGS)
KW - multimodality
KW - Polish Sign Language (PJM)
KW - recurrent gestures
KW - sign language
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85166435834&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/bjl.00072.gab
DO - 10.1075/bjl.00072.gab
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85166435834
SN - 0774-5141
VL - 36
SP - 73
EP - 107
JO - Belgian Journal of Linguistics
JF - Belgian Journal of Linguistics
IS - 1
ER -