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Aurélia Nana Gassa Gonga; Onno Crasborn; Ellen Ormel – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
In simultaneous interpreting studies, the concept of interference -- namely, the marks of the source language in the target language -- is perceived as a negative phenomenon. However, interference is likely to happen at a lexical level when the target language does not have its own lexicon. This is the case in international sign (IS), which can be…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Linguistic Borrowing, Sign Language, Second Languages
Cecily Ran Liao; Brian Hok-Shing Chan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Not only does language practice in shop signs generate a sense of place with particular meanings to visitors, it also indicates the kind of economic activity performed in that place. By investigating and comparing the shop name signs in the two largest foreign migrant neighbourhoods in Guangzhou, specifically, Baohan Straight Street (African…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Multilingualism, Community Characteristics, English (Second Language)
Helena S. Belío-Apaolaza; Natividad Hernández Muñoz – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The acquisition of communicative competence in second and foreign languages requires the incorporation of verbal and non-verbal elements. Notwithstanding, few studies have performed empirical research into the acquisition of non-verbal signs. This research studies the learning of emblematic gestures for students of Spanish in the USA using an…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication