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Beyond languages, beyond modalities: transforming the study of semiotic repertoires
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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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- Authors
- Kusters, A., Spotti, M., Swanwick, R., & Tapio, E.
- Affiliations
- Heriot-Watt University (GB)
- Tilburg University (NL)
- University of Leeds (GB)
- Humak University of Applied Sciences (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Kusters, Annelies
- Venue
- International Journal of Multilingualism
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-05-10
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 219-232
- ISSN
- 1479-0718 (ISSN-L)
- 1747-7530
- OpenAlex
- W2613144819
- Cited by
- 379
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 57 · 2023: 40 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 86 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 14
- FWCI
- 122.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- International Journal of Multilingualism (publishedVersion)
- Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
- Tilburg University Research Portal (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Multilingual Education and Policy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Keywords
- semiotic repertoires, multilingualism, multimodality, translanguaging, bilingualism, sign language, spoken language, multilingual communication, multimodal communication, simultaneous communication
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