• A cross-linguistic comparison of reference across five signed languages 

      Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anible, Benjamin Donald; Hodge, Gabrielle; Jantunen, Tommi; Leeson, Lorraine; Mesch, Johanna; Nilsson, Anna-Lena (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      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 ...
    • Iconicity as Multimodal, Polysemiotic, and Plurifunctional 

      Hodge, Gabrielle; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Investigations of iconicity in language, whereby interactants coordinate meaningful bodily actions to create resemblances, are prevalent across the human communication sciences. However, when it comes to analysing and ...
    • Language as description, indication, and depiction 

      Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Hodge, Gabrielle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      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 ...
    • The semiotic diversity of doing reference in a deaf signed language 

      Hodge, Gabrielle; Ferrara, Lindsay Nicole; Anible, Benjamin Donald (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      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 ...