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Mouth actions as gesture in sign language
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- Source: Gesture, Volume 8, Issue 1, Jan 2008, p. 104 - 123
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Abstract
The present study investigates the nature of mouth actions in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and shows how the manual and the oral modality can be integrated when the visual-gestural channel is chosen for communication. Finally, the role played by mouth actions in sign language will be investigated and paralleled to co-speech gestures by re-working Kendon’s continuum in order to show how orality could become gestural when co-occurring with signing.
© 2008 John Benjamins Publishing Company