A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages

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 removin...

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Autores: Gabarró López, Sílvia, Kuder, Anna
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/60899
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00072.gab
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Sign language
Recurrent gestures
Away-family
Multimodality
Corpus linguistics
German Sign Language (DGS)
French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)
Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Polish Sign Language (PJM)
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spelling A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languagesGabarró López, SílviaKuder, AnnaSign languageRecurrent gesturesAway-familyMultimodalityCorpus linguisticsGerman Sign Language (DGS)French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)Catalan Sign Language (LSC)Polish Sign Language (PJM)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.John Benjamins Publishing202420242022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/60899http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/bjl.00072.gabreponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésBelgian Journal of Linguistics. 2022 Dec 31;36(1):73-107© John Benjamins Publishing. Available under the CC BY 4.0 license.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/608992026-06-12T07:21:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
title A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
spellingShingle A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
Gabarró López, Sílvia
Sign language
Recurrent gestures
Away-family
Multimodality
Corpus linguistics
German Sign Language (DGS)
French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)
Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Polish Sign Language (PJM)
title_short A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
title_full A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
title_fullStr A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
title_full_unstemmed A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
title_sort A corpus-based study of ‘Away gestures’ across four signed languages
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Gabarró López, Sílvia
Kuder, Anna
author Gabarró López, Sílvia
author_facet Gabarró López, Sílvia
Kuder, Anna
author_role author
author2 Kuder, Anna
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Sign language
Recurrent gestures
Away-family
Multimodality
Corpus linguistics
German Sign Language (DGS)
French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)
Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Polish Sign Language (PJM)
topic Sign language
Recurrent gestures
Away-family
Multimodality
Corpus linguistics
German Sign Language (DGS)
French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)
Catalan Sign Language (LSC)
Polish Sign Language (PJM)
description 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.
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