Affiliation:
1. Pompeu Fabra University
2. University of Namur
3. University of Cologne
Abstract
Abstract
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.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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