Using multimodal conversation analysis, we investigate how novices learning the “inner body” acting technique in the context of a community the
3 DGS: grammatical sketch and summary of acquisition studies Sign language is commonly attributed the status of first or primary language in the bilingual language development of deaf learners because, unlike spoken lan- guage, it is the language that is fully accessible to these learners. However...
At lexical level, English contracts mainly demonstrate the following characteristics: the frequent use of archaic words, formal words, and synonyms. Their characteristics at syntactic level are more complex. This thesis analyses them in terms of conditional adverbial clauses, long sentences, and declara...