Special issue of Australian Journal of Linguistics: gesture, sign language and alternate sign language

[Mark Mandel]

The following was posted on the language and linguistic blog
Superlinguo<http://www.superlinguo.com/post/81526043630/revisiting-significant-action-and-gesture>by
"loztron" (apparently Jennifer Green). The journal issue is at the
link
in the blog post ("April edition"). The referenced article serves as an
introduction to the special issue.

Mark Mandel

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April 3, 2014
*Revisiting Significant Action and Gesture Categorization: Article in the
latest ALJ*<http://www.superlinguo.com/post/81526043630/revisiting-significant-action-and-gesture>

I am pleased to be able to let you know that the *April edition
<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cajl20/34/2#.UzyLp8cRale>* of the
Australian Journal of Linguistics is now available online, and it’s a
special edition focusing on gesture, sign language and alternate sign
language. I have an article in there with my former supervisor Barb Kelly,
in which we seek to understand how people pay attention to gestures and
other body movements.

It’s always exciting to see an academic article in print, but this one is
particularly exciting for me. This paper is based on the research I did for
my honours project back in 2007. In between I’ve started and finished a PhD
in a completely different area of linguistics. I’m glad this work has
finally been able to see the light of day!

All good libraries should have access to the AJL either in print or online.
If you can’t get access and you’re interested then contact
us<http://www.superlinguo.com/about>
!

Abstract<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07268602.2014.887406#.UzyL3scRalc>
As the field of gesture studies has developed researchers have created ways
of analysing and categorizing bodily movement phenomena. In this paper we
look at whether gesture categorizations have any resonance with the ways
that people other than gesture researchers approach bodily movement.
Building on Kendon’s observations that people generally have a consistent
attitude towards what constitutes ‘significant action’, we asked 12
participants to conceptualize their own categories of gesture and then
analyse a short video that contained a predetermined variety of bodily
movements. We found that non-analysts had a wider conception of what
constituted gesture than analysts. In regards to the categorizations of
gesture that non-analysts made, there were a range of schemas, which we
broadly categorized as being ‘form-based’ and ‘function-based’.

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*Table of Contents (articles only):*

*Introduction*
Finding Common Ground: Sign Language and Gesture Research in Australia
Jennifer Green, Barbara F. Kelly & Adam Schembri
pages 185-192

*Articles*
Elaborating Who's What: A Study of Constructed Action and Clause Structure
in Auslan (Australian Sign Language)
Lindsay Ferrara & Trevor Johnston
pages 193-215

Revisiting Significant Action and Gesture Categorization
Lauren Gawne & Barbara F. Kelly
pages 216-233

With or Without Speech: Arandic Sign Language from Central Australia
Jennifer Green & David P. Wilkins
pages 234-261

Points, Depictions, Gestures and Enactment: Partly Lexical and Non-Lexical
Signs as Core Elements of Single Clause-Like Units in Auslan (Australian
Sign Language)
Gabrielle Hodge & Trevor Johnston
pages 262-291
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