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Date: 03-Aug-2026
From: Eric Burgstede [eric at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Sign Language & Linguistics Vol. 29, No. 1/2 (2026)


Publisher: John Benjamins
                        http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Sign Language & Linguistics
Volume Number: 29
Issue Number: 1/2
Issue Date: 2026

Subtitle: Special Issue: Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign
Language Linguistics

Main Text:

2026.  vi, 352 pp.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Editors’ notepad
p. 1
Introduction
Cognitive and functional explorations in sign language linguistics
Olga Capirci & Sabina Fontana | pp. 2–8
Articles
Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic
approach
Chiara Bonsignori, Elena Tomasuolo, Pasquale Rinaldi & Virginia
Volterra | pp. 9–32
Italian Sign Language: Searching for common ground between the
sociosemiotic perspective and computational annotation
Gaia Caligiore | pp. 33–60
Uses of the pointing sign directed at the signer in Finnish Sign
Language
Sanna Nordlund | pp. 61–114
The emergence of Czech Sign Language
Lenka Okrouhlíková | pp. 115–171
Constructed action in the narrative tasks of children and adults using
Finnish Sign Language
Anna 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 versa
Erika Raniolo | pp. 212–223
Discourse genres in French Sign Language: A qualitative and
quantitative corpus study
Marie-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 Language
Adam Schembri | pp. 249–270
Constructing meaning through translation: A cognitive linguistic
analysis of ASL texts about cancer
Naomi Sheneman | pp. 271–295
Action bias in describing object locations by signing children
Beyza Sümer & Aslı Özyürek | pp. 296–319
Dissertation abstracts
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

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics




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