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  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Sign Language Studies

Background:

  • Gestures are often interpreted through the speaker's physical environment (environmentally-coupled gestures).
  • Spoken language articulators are hidden, limiting environmental coupling.
  • Sign language's visual-manual modality allows for environmental interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore environmentally-coupled signs in sign language.
  • To demonstrate how sign language utilizes the environment for meaning.
  • To integrate language-as-situated and language-as-system perspectives.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of existing definitions of environmentally-coupled gestures.
  • Examination of sign language examples illustrating environmental coupling.
  • Theoretical integration of situated and systemic language approaches.

Main Results:

  • Sign language signs can be environmentally-coupled, unlike spoken words.
  • Examples show signs articulated on or near environmental elements.
  • These expressions are constrained by internal language structures.

Conclusions:

  • A language-as-situated approach is necessary for understanding environmentally-coupled signs.
  • Both situated and systemic language views are crucial.
  • This dual perspective explains the iconic and indexical properties of sign language.