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French Sign Language: Proposition of a Structural Explanation by Iconicity

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Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction (GW 1999)

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In this article, I shall attempt to demonstrate that sign languages are linguistic objects which provide us with increasingly tangible means of accessing cognitive activity. This is possible by virtue of the existence in language of the visible, iconic manifestation of a dynamic process, which is set in motion by deaf signers to speak of experience outside of the situation of the utterance.

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  1. Département des Sciences du Langage, Université Paris VIII, 2 rue de la liberté, F-93 526, Saint-Denis cedex 02, France

    Christian Cuxac

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  1. LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 91403, Orsay cedex, France

    Annelies Braffort , Rachid Gherbi , Sylvie Gibet  & Daniel Teil , ,  & 

  2. Université Paris Sud, LPM, 9140, Orsay, France

    James Richardson

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Cuxac, C. (1999). French Sign Language: Proposition of a Structural Explanation by Iconicity. In: Braffort, A., Gherbi, R., Gibet, S., Teil, D., Richardson, J. (eds) Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. GW 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46616-9_16

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