TY - JOUR
T1 - Contrasting signed and spoken languages
T2 - Towards a renewed perspective on language
AU - GABARRO-LOPEZ, Silvia
AU - Meurant, Laurence
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the FoSpråk Programme under Grant SU FV-2845-17 and by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS under Grant 1.B.181.22F (awarded to Sílvia Gabarró-López) and n°J.0131.21 (awarded to Laurence Meurant). All the articles in this volume went through a double open peer-review process by a fellow contributor and by a scholar who did not participate in this special issue. We would like to thank Lindsay Ferrara, Tommi Jantunen, Terry Janzen, Anne-Marie Parisot, Darren Saunders, Eve Sweetser, Mieke Van Herreweghe and Amélie Voghel for the time devoted to provide insightful and constructive comments. Their reviews greatly improved the quality and coherence of this special issue. The authors are also especially grateful to David Quinto-Pozos for his careful review of the first draft of this introduction and for his valuable suggestions. Sílvia Gabarró-López is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stockholm University and Laurence Meurant is a Research Associate of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS at the University of Namur.
Funding Information:
The publication of this special issue was supported by the F.R.S-FNRS, the Belgian University Foundation, the NaLTT research institute and the Department of French and Romance Languages and Literatures of the University of Namur.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the FoSpråk Programme under Grant SU FV-2845-17 and by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique-FNRS under Grant 1.B.181.22F (awarded to Sílvia Gabarró-López) and n°J.0131.21 (awarded to Laurence Meurant).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/8/23
Y1 - 2022/8/23
N2 - For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, was the only way to investigate the human language capacity. As an introduction to this first volume of Languages in Contrast devoted to the comparison of spoken and signed languages, we propose to look at the reasons for the late emergence of the consideration of signed languages and multimodality in language studies. Next, the main stages of the history of sign language research are summarized. We highlight the benefits of studying cross-modal and multimodal data, as opposed to the isolated investigation of signed or spoken languages, and point out the remaining methodological obstacles to this approach. This contextualization prefaces the presentation of the outline of the volume.
AB - For years, the study of spoken languages, on the basis of written and then also oral productions, was the only way to investigate the human language capacity. As an introduction to this first volume of Languages in Contrast devoted to the comparison of spoken and signed languages, we propose to look at the reasons for the late emergence of the consideration of signed languages and multimodality in language studies. Next, the main stages of the history of sign language research are summarized. We highlight the benefits of studying cross-modal and multimodal data, as opposed to the isolated investigation of signed or spoken languages, and point out the remaining methodological obstacles to this approach. This contextualization prefaces the presentation of the outline of the volume.
KW - contrastive studies
KW - corpora
KW - gesture studies
KW - multimodality
KW - sign language linguistics
KW - signed/spoken languages
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137718331&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1075/lic.00024.gab
DO - 10.1075/lic.00024.gab
M3 - Article
SN - 1387-6759
VL - 22
SP - 169
EP - 194
JO - Languages in Contrast : International Journal of Contrastive Linguistics
JF - Languages in Contrast : International Journal of Contrastive Linguistics
IS - 2
ER -