Sílvia Gabarró-López

Biographic Data

ID1048998
NAMESílvia Gabarró-López
GIVEN NAMESSílvia
FAMILY NAMEGabarró-López
SIGNATUREGABARRÓ-LÓPEZ S
AFFILIATIONSStockholm University
ORCID0000-0003-2918-108X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Insights into interaction management through backchannels

    Open AccessAlysson Lepeut, Sílvia Gabarró-LópezARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2026

    This paper analyzes backchannel signals in two signed languages: French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). While backchannels have been extensively studied in spoken languages, their documentation across signed languages remains sparse in comparison. This study investigates how backchannels operate in signed language interaction, focusing on their forms and articulatory types within and across LSFB and LSC conversations…

  • Tactile interactions

    Open AccessSílvia Gabarró-López, Johanna MeschARTICLEOpen Linguistics2026

    This paper investigates palm-ups, finger pointings, and holds in Tactile Swedish Sign Language interactions. Our objectives are threefold: scrutinizing the frequency of use of the three interactive markers, studying their functions, and describing the differences and similarities as compared to other signed and spoken languages. Data from two corpora were selected; one was collected in a studio and the other in natural settings. Fifty-nine minute…

  • Discourse Markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) Dialogues and Their Translation into French

    Open AccessSílvia Gabarró-LópezARTICLELanguages2025References: 25

    Discourse markers have been extensively studied in spoken languages from different perspectives, covering monolingual, contrastive, and translation studies. However, research on these items remains limited for signed languages, with only a handful of scattered publications. Following a corpus-based approach, this paper aims to investigate discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB), including their types, functions, and translation/s…

  • Crossing boundaries

    Open AccessSílvia Gabarró-López, Laurence Meurant et al.ARTICLEAcross Languages and Cultures2024

    The French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) corpus is the cornerstone of a unique multilingual data system that includes four distinct corpora. The first is a reference corpus containing dialogical LSFB data produced by deaf signers, which is also translated into written French, and the second one is a comparable multimodal corpus of Belgian French containing dialogical data produced by hearing native speakers. The other two corpora are made up of in…

  • Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting

    Open AccessSílvia Gabarró-LópezARTICLELingua2024Cited by: 1References: 20

  • Conveying Environmental Information to Deafblind People

    Open AccessSílvia Gabarró-López, Johanna MeschARTICLEFrontiers in Education2020

    Many deafblind people use tactile sign language and interpreters in their daily lives. Because of their hearing and sight loss, the role of interpreters does not only involve translating the content expressed by other deaf or hearing people, but it also involves conveying environmental information (i.e., non-verbal communication regarding what is happening at a given moment to be able to understand the situation). This paper aims to contribute to…

  • Are discourse markers related to age and educational background? A comparative account between two sign languages

    Open AccessSílvia Gabarró-LópezARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2020Cited by: 4References: 4

    This paper presents a pilot investigation of two discourse markers, namely palm-up and same, in French Belgian Sign Language and Catalan Sign Language. The two discourse markers are studied from a cross-linguistic and a cross-generational perspective using two comparable samples of argumentative productions. The analysis shows that the two discourse markers are highly polyfunctional. Although they have language-specific functions, most of these f…

  • What Can Discourse Markers Tell Us about Genres and Vice Versa? A Corpus-Driven Study of French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)

    Open AccessSílvia Gabarró-LópezARTICLELidil2019Cited by: 4References: 1

    This paper focuses on the use of three discourse markers – namely list buoys, PALM-UP and SAME – across genres in French Belgian Sign Language. Our sample contains argumentative, explanatory, metalinguistic and narrative dialogues produced by six signers. We present a functional description of the three discourse markers and their distribution across genres. PALM-UP and SAME are highly polyfunctional, whereas list buoys express fewer functions in…