Gabrielle Hodges
Biographic Data
| ID | 1155474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabrielle Hodges |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabrielle |
| FAMILY NAME | Hodges |
| SIGNATURE | HODGES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8677-6149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate clauses
Signers of Deaf community signed languages negate clauses via manual negating signs and/or non-manual movements such as headshakes. Several claims about the dominance of manual versus non-manual negation across signed languages have been made, mostly based on survey responses and elicited data. Here, we describe how clause negation was signalled in 420 clauses identified in dyadic conversations between 40 deaf signers of British Sign Language (BS…
Manual wh -signs and English wh- mouthings differentiate BSL content and polar questions
How do deaf BSL signers signal polar and content questions? This study quantitatively investigates the manual and non-manual forms used to signal polar and content questions during dyadic conversations documented in the BSL Corpus. We found that non-manual movements such as eye, eyebrow and/or head movements do not differentiate content and polar questions in BSL. Instead, it is the presence or absence of conventionalised wh -forms that most stro…
Opening up Corpus FinSL: Enriching Corpus Analysis With Linguistic Ethnography in a Study of Constructed Action
Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware of the limitations of traditional corpus documentation methods. One limitation relates to insufficient documentation of ethnographic information that is often necessary for accurately understandi…
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages
Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully conventionalized forms with more richly improvised semiotics to identify and talk about referents of varying agency. The five languages (based on a convenience sample) are Auslan, Irish Sign Language, Finnish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language, and Swedish Sign Language. Usi…
Deaf signing diversity and signed language translations
This article explores what deaf signing diversity means for the creation of effective online signed language translations in Australia and for language theory more generally. We draw on the translanguaging and enregisterment literature to describe the communication practices and individual repertoires of deaf Auslan signers, and to problematise the creation of translations from English into Auslan. We also revisit findings from focus group resear…
Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies
Many domains of sociolinguistic enquiry have contributed to the development of our understanding of the sociolinguistics of sign languages, ranging from studies in language attitudes and multilingualism to discourse analysis and sociolinguistic variation (see, e.g. Lucas, 2001; Schembri & Lucas, 2015). Researchers have used a range of methodological approaches (see Kusters & Lucas, 2021 for an overview). Two complementary approaches for investiga…
The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language
This article describes how deaf signers of Auslan (a deaf signed language of Australia) coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs and English fingerspelling and/or mouthing) with more richly improvised semiotics (such as indicating verbs, pointing signs, depicting signs, visible surrogates and/or invisible surrogates) to identify and talk about referents of varying agency. Using twenty retellings of Frog, Where Are You…
Language as Description, Indication, and Depiction
Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (Parmentier, 1994; Clark, 1996; Johnston, 1996; Kendon, 2004). Varied semiotic repertoires combine in different ways, the details of which are rooted in the interactions occurring in a specific time and place (Goodwin, 2000; Kusters et al., 2017). However, intense focus in linguistics on convention…
Points, Depictions, Gestures and Enactment: Partly Lexical and Non-Lexical Signs as Core Elements of Single Clause-Like Units in Auslan (Australian Sign Language)
Pointing signs, depicting signs and manual gestures are all used for meaningful expression in Auslan, as are full or partial body enactments to demonstrate action or dialogue. This article outlines a corpus-driven approach to identifying clause-like units in a native signed language and investigates the use of pointing signs, depicting signs, gestures and enactments to express core elements of possible clause-like units in Auslan narratives. We e…
Language as Description, Indication, and Depiction
Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (Parmentier, 1994; Clark, 1996; Johnston, 1996; Kendon, 2004). Varied semiotic repertoires combine in different ways, the details of which are rooted in the interactions occurring in a specific time and place (Goodwin, 2000; Kusters et al., 2017). However, intense focus in linguistics on convention…
Points, Depictions, Gestures and Enactment: Partly Lexical and Non-Lexical Signs as Core Elements of Single Clause-Like Units in Auslan (Australian Sign Language)
Pointing signs, depicting signs and manual gestures are all used for meaningful expression in Auslan, as are full or partial body enactments to demonstrate action or dialogue. This article outlines a corpus-driven approach to identifying clause-like units in a native signed language and investigates the use of pointing signs, depicting signs, gestures and enactments to express core elements of possible clause-like units in Auslan narratives. We e…
The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language
This article describes how deaf signers of Auslan (a deaf signed language of Australia) coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs and English fingerspelling and/or mouthing) with more richly improvised semiotics (such as indicating verbs, pointing signs, depicting signs, visible surrogates and/or invisible surrogates) to identify and talk about referents of varying agency. Using twenty retellings of Frog, Where Are You…
Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies
Many domains of sociolinguistic enquiry have contributed to the development of our understanding of the sociolinguistics of sign languages, ranging from studies in language attitudes and multilingualism to discourse analysis and sociolinguistic variation (see, e.g. Lucas, 2001; Schembri & Lucas, 2015). Researchers have used a range of methodological approaches (see Kusters & Lucas, 2021 for an overview). Two complementary approaches for investiga…
Opening up Corpus FinSL: Enriching Corpus Analysis With Linguistic Ethnography in a Study of Constructed Action
Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware of the limitations of traditional corpus documentation methods. One limitation relates to insufficient documentation of ethnographic information that is often necessary for accurately understandi…
Points, Depictions, Gestures and Enactment: Partly Lexical and Non-Lexical Signs as Core Elements of Single Clause-Like Units in Auslan (Australian Sign Language)
Pointing signs, depicting signs and manual gestures are all used for meaningful expression in Auslan, as are full or partial body enactments to demonstrate action or dialogue. This article outlines a corpus-driven approach to identifying clause-like units in a native signed language and investigates the use of pointing signs, depicting signs, gestures and enactments to express core elements of possible clause-like units in Auslan narratives. We e…
Language as Description, Indication, and Depiction
Signers and speakers coordinate a broad range of intentionally expressive actions within the spatiotemporal context of their face-to-face interactions (Parmentier, 1994; Clark, 1996; Johnston, 1996; Kendon, 2004). Varied semiotic repertoires combine in different ways, the details of which are rooted in the interactions occurring in a specific time and place (Goodwin, 2000; Kusters et al., 2017). However, intense focus in linguistics on convention…
The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language
This article describes how deaf signers of Auslan (a deaf signed language of Australia) coordinate fully conventionalised forms (such as lexical manual signs and English fingerspelling and/or mouthing) with more richly improvised semiotics (such as indicating verbs, pointing signs, depicting signs, visible surrogates and/or invisible surrogates) to identify and talk about referents of varying agency. Using twenty retellings of Frog, Where Are You…
Natural and elicited: Sign language corpus linguistics and linguistic ethnography as complementary methodologies
Many domains of sociolinguistic enquiry have contributed to the development of our understanding of the sociolinguistics of sign languages, ranging from studies in language attitudes and multilingualism to discourse analysis and sociolinguistic variation (see, e.g. Lucas, 2001; Schembri & Lucas, 2015). Researchers have used a range of methodological approaches (see Kusters & Lucas, 2021 for an overview). Two complementary approaches for investiga…
A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages
Do signers of different signed languages establish and maintain reference the same way? Here we compare how signers of five Western deaf signed languages coordinate fully conventionalized forms with more richly improvised semiotics to identify and talk about referents of varying agency. The five languages (based on a convenience sample) are Auslan, Irish Sign Language, Finnish Sign Language, Norwegian Sign Language, and Swedish Sign Language. Usi…
Deaf signing diversity and signed language translations
This article explores what deaf signing diversity means for the creation of effective online signed language translations in Australia and for language theory more generally. We draw on the translanguaging and enregisterment literature to describe the communication practices and individual repertoires of deaf Auslan signers, and to problematise the creation of translations from English into Auslan. We also revisit findings from focus group resear…
BSL signers combine different semiotic strategies to negate clauses
Signers of Deaf community signed languages negate clauses via manual negating signs and/or non-manual movements such as headshakes. Several claims about the dominance of manual versus non-manual negation across signed languages have been made, mostly based on survey responses and elicited data. Here, we describe how clause negation was signalled in 420 clauses identified in dyadic conversations between 40 deaf signers of British Sign Language (BS…
Manual wh -signs and English wh- mouthings differentiate BSL content and polar questions
How do deaf BSL signers signal polar and content questions? This study quantitatively investigates the manual and non-manual forms used to signal polar and content questions during dyadic conversations documented in the BSL Corpus. We found that non-manual movements such as eye, eyebrow and/or head movements do not differentiate content and polar questions in BSL. Instead, it is the presence or absence of conventionalised wh -forms that most stro…
Opening up Corpus FinSL: Enriching Corpus Analysis With Linguistic Ethnography in a Study of Constructed Action
Corpus methods are now established within the field of signed language linguistics. Empirical investigations of signed language corpora have challenged many early assumptions about the nature of deaf community signed languages, while making us more aware of the limitations of traditional corpus documentation methods. One limitation relates to insufficient documentation of ethnographic information that is often necessary for accurately understandi…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (8 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Sign language (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Communication (3 works)