Sign Languages and Gesture
Our research assumes that language is multimodal because communication involves the whole body, and not just the spoken and written word. A central strength of our work is the study of signed languages, the visual-gestural languages of deaf communities. We also explore how speech and gesture work together in everyday communication.
Areas of research include:
- Cross-linguistic variation in gesture use
- First and second language acquisition of signed languages
- Gesture and language development
- Gesture and language emergence
- Metaphorical gestures
- Multimodal corpus analysis
- Sign language linguistics and sociolinguistics
Academic staff
Academic staff
- Professor Jeannette Littlemore - Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics
- Dr Gerardo Ortega - Associate Professor
- Dr Marcus Perlman - Associate Professor in English Language and Linguistics
- Professor Adam Schembri - Professor of Linguistics
- Professor Bodo Winter - Professor of Linguistics