Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 29:1/2 (2026)
Editors
[Sign Language & Linguistics, 29:1/2] Expected August 2026. vi, 352 pp.
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
- Editors’ notepadp. 1
- Cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguisticsOlga Capirci & Sabina Fontana | pp. 2–8
- Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic approachChiara Bonsignori, Elena Tomasuolo, Pasquale Rinaldi & Virginia Volterra | pp. 9–32
- Italian Sign Language: Searching for common ground between the sociosemiotic perspective and computational annotationGaia Caligiore | pp. 33–60
- Uses of the pointing sign directed at the signer in Finnish Sign LanguageSanna Nordlund | pp. 61–114
- The emergence of Czech Sign LanguageLenka Okrouhlíková | pp. 115–171
- Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using Finnish Sign LanguageAnna Puupponen & Laura Kanto | pp. 172–211
- The role of “intersensoriality” in the process of poetic translation from Italian into Italian Sign Language (LIS) and vice versaErika Raniolo | pp. 212–223
- Discourse genres in French Sign Language: A qualitative and quantitative corpus studyMarie-Anne Sallandre, Antonio Balvet & Brigitte Garcia | pp. 224–248
- Usage-based grammars and sign languages: Evidence from Auslan, British Sign Language, and New Zealand Sign LanguageAdam Schembri | pp. 249–270
- Constructing meaning through translation: A cognitive linguistic analysis of ASL texts about cancerNaomi Sheneman | pp. 271–295
- Action bias in describing object locations by signing childrenBeyza Sümer & Aslı Özyürek | pp. 296–319
- Complex syntactic constructions in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: A study of complement and relative clauses(University of Amsterdam, 2025)Evgeniia Khristoforova | pp. 320–332
- Patterns of iconicity across sign languages and gestures(University of Cologne, 2025, in cooperation with the University of Birmingham)Annika Schiefner | pp. 333–341
- The competition between arguments for prominence in German Sign Language(University of Cologne, 2025)Thiago de Souza Santos | pp. 342–352
Editorial
Introduction
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Dissertation abstracts