Finding Common Ground: Sign Language and Gesture Research in Australia

Green, Jenny; Kelly, Barbara F.; Schembri, Adam

doi:10.1080/07268602.2014.887404

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“…Instead, they would utter the word (mimi) and indicate the locus of the cancer on their own body. This is in line with interpreting practices in sign-spoken interactions (Green et al, 2014).…”

Section: Interpreting Medical Terminologysupporting

confidence: 82%

Cross-Cultural Interpreting With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patients

Karidakis

2021

Qual Health Res

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The aim of this study is to investigate ways in which interpreting practice in health care settings can be further developed to better facilitate communication with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients. Data used include 15 hours of transcribed audio recording from semi-structured interviews with interpreters and Aboriginal Liaison Officers who discuss their perceived experiences of interpreting in medical settings. They offer insights into how language is used to resolve communication differences that may confound the interpreting process and in doing so identify roles interpreters assume and discourse patterns that emerge in interpreting practice. As evidenced through the findings, provisions need to be made for cultural differences. Interpreters report they have to “unpack” medical terminology and explain such terminology and related concepts in tangible terms to ensure patient understanding. Other strategies include talking about taboo topics using culturally appropriate terms, avoiding certain question–answer routines, and being aware of nonverbal aspects of communication.

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Section: Interpreting Medical Terminologysupporting

confidence: 82%

Cross-Cultural Interpreting With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patients

Karidakis

2021

Qual Health Res

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“…The studies in this volume make clear that further careful research is required to understand the role that the visual modality plays in sign versus spoken languages and to further our insights into the cognitive influences on language structure and language emergence. We hope that this collection of papers will help to facilitate further fruitful exchanges between gesture and sign language researchers, taking both similar and different theoretical standpoints (see also Green, Kelly, & Schembri, ). Finally, it is important to note that the field of (comparative) gesture and sign language research is still in its early stages and that more research on different sign languages and on the co‐speech gestures used by speakers of different spoken languages is needed to better understand the fundamental features of our capacity for language in its multimodal form.…”

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The Influence of the Visual Modality on Language Structure and Conventionalization: Insights From Sign Language and Gesture

Perniss

Özyürek

Morgan

2015

Topics in Cognitive Science

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For humans, the ability to communicate and use language is instantiated not only in the vocal modality but also in the visual modality. The main examples of this are sign languages and (co-speech) gestures. Sign languages, the natural languages of Deaf communities, use systematic and conventionalized movements of the hands, face, and body for linguistic expression. Co-speech gestures, though non-linguistic, are produced in tight semantic and temporal integration with speech and constitute an integral part of language together with speech. The articles in this issue explore and document how gestures and sign languages are similar or different and how communicative expression in the visual modality can change from being gestural to grammatical in nature through processes of conventionalization. As such, this issue contributes to our understanding of how the visual modality shapes language and the emergence of linguistic structure in newly developing systems. Studying the relationship between signs and gestures provides a new window onto the human ability to recruit multiple levels of representation (e.g., categorical, gradient, iconic, abstract) in the service of using or creating conventionalized communicative systems.

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“…Nowadays a number of sign language linguists acknowledge and attend to gesture, asking what is the relationship, the analogy or the difference between signs and gestures, and how much of signing is iconic and transparent (see, e.g. Green, Kelly, & Schembri 2014;Jantunen, forthcoming;Kendon, 2004;Vermeerbergen, 2006). However, an analysis of only the relationships between gesture and speech, gesture and sign and gesture in sign, is insufficient for understanding meaning-making in (signed) interaction -the scope should be wider, including other multimodal means of constructing meaning (Tapio, 2013;Vermeerbergen, Leeson, & Crasborn 2007).…”

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Beyond languages, beyond modalities: transforming the study of semiotic repertoires

Kusters

Spotti

Swanwick

et al. 2017

International Journal of Multilingualism

288

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This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of language use, moving from (individual and societal) bilingualism to multilingualism and (trans)languaging, have resulted in the revitalization of the concept of language repertoires. We discuss key assumptions and analytical developments that have shaped the sociolinguistic study of signed and spoken language multilingualism as separate from different strands of multimodality studies. In most multimodality studies, researchers focus on participants using one named spoken language within broader embodied human action. Thus while attending to multimodal communication, they do not attend to multilingual communication. In translanguaging studies the opposite has happened: scholars have attended to multilingual communication without really paying attention to multimodality and simultaneity, and hierarchies within the simultaneous combination of resources. The (socio)linguistics of sign language has paid attention to multimodality but only very recently have started to focus on multilingual contexts where multiple sign and/or multiple spoken languages are used in overlap with one another. There is currently little transaction between these areas of research. We argue that the lens of semiotic repertoires enables synergies to be identified and provides a holistic focus (addressing ideologies, histories, potentialities, constraints) on action that is both multilingual and multimodal.

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Finding Common Ground: Sign Language and Gesture Research in Australia

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Cross-Cultural Interpreting With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patients

Cross-Cultural Interpreting With Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Patients

The Influence of the Visual Modality on Language Structure and Conventionalization: Insights From Sign Language and Gesture

Beyond languages, beyond modalities: transforming the study of semiotic repertoires

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