Gebärdensprachliche Textlinguistik: Stand der Forschung und Perspektiven

Full programme (pdf) (note programme changes).

Note: Sign language interpreters will be present during the entire AG.

Coordinators: Martje Hansen, Jens Heßmann, Christian Rathmann

Gary Morgan (City University London)

Talking about Boys, Dogs and Frogs in the Visual Modality: Using Narrative to Study Deaf People’s Extended Sign Language

Gabrielle Hodge, Lindsay Ferrara & Trevor Johnston (Sydney)

Using Prosody and Grammar to Describe Natural Discourse in Auslan

Kearsy Cormier (UC London) & Sandra Smith (Bristol)

Defining and annotating constructed action, constructed dialogue and role shift

Els van der Kooij & Inge Zwitserlood (Nijmegen)

Typical ‘topical predicates’: one of various introducing strategies in narrative texts

Okan Kubus & Christian Rathmann (Hamburg)

Analysis of Relative Clause Constructions in Turkish Sign Language (TID) in Discourse Modes

Johanna Mesch, Anna-Lena Nilsson & Lars Wallin (Stockholm)

Backchannel signals in signers’ conversations

Rolf Halvorsen & Guri Amundsen (Trondheim)

Sign or gesture? An analysis of discourse markers in different text types

Brenda Nicodemus (San Diego)

Disfluencies in American Sign Language and English: What ‘Ums’ and ‘Uhs’ Can Tell us About Discourse and Language Production

Melanie Metzger (Gallaudet University) & Ronice Müller de Quadros (UFSC)

Cognitive control in bimodal bilingual sign language interpreters

Christian Rathmann

Anaphoric und narrative patterns of temporal interpretation in signed texts

Beppie van den Bogarde, Eveline Boers & Willem Terpstra (Utrecht)

Sign Language input to students: what and how to offer when?

Claudia Becker (Köln)

Acquisition of discourse competence in sign languages: A methodology challenge to sign language research

Simone Groeber (Neuchâtel)

Understanding social interaction with bimodal bilingual language learners: focus on turn-taking

Lorraine Leeson & John I. Saeed

Discourse Markers in the Signs of Ireland Corpus: The Function of Buoys

Silke Matthes (Hamburg)

Constructed action in an Unfamiliar Sign Language Register

Michiko Kaneko & Rachel Sutton-Spence

Different Tropes for Different Folks: ‘Style’ in BSL Poetry

Rachel Sutton-Spence (Bristol), Johanna Mesch (Stockholm) & Michiko Kaneko (Bristol)

Signed Renga: Exploration of ‘Genre’ in Creative Sign Language