Kusters, A, Spotti, M, Swanwick, R orcid.org/0000-0001-5482-6009 et al. (1 more author) (2017) Beyond languages, beyond modalities: transforming the study of semiotic repertoires. International Journal of Multilingualism, 14 (3). pp. 219-232. ISSN 1479-0718
Abstract
This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of language use, moving from bilingualism to multilingualism and (trans)languaging, have resulted in the revitalisation of the concept of language repertoires. We discuss key assumptions and analytical developments that have shaped the sociolinguistic study of signed and spoken language multilingualism as separate from different strands of multimodality studies. In most multimodality studies, researchers focus on participants using one named spoken language within broader embodied human action. Thus while attending to multimodal communication, they do not attend to multilingual communication. In translanguaging studies the opposite has happened: scholars have attended to multilingual communication without really paying attention to multimodality and simultaneity, and hierarchies within the simultaneous combination of resources. The (socio)linguistics of sign language has paid attention to multimodality but only very recently have started to focus on multilingual contexts where multiple sign and/or multiple spoken languages are used. There is currently little transaction between these areas of research. We argue that the lens of semiotic repertoires enables synergies to be identified and provides a holistic focus on action that is both multilingual and multimodal.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2017, Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the International Journal of Multilingualism on 10 May 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2017.1321651 |
Keywords: | Multimodality; translanguaging; semiotics; sign language; gestures; repertoires |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 May 2017 15:18 |
Last Modified: | 10 Nov 2018 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14790718.2017.1321651 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116337 |