Stance in Flemish Sign Language

Abstract In this contribution, we offer a first exploration of stance expressions in Flemish Sign Language (VGT). Biber and Finegan (1989) define as the expression feelings, attitudes, judgments, commitments, assessments. The few studies focusing on signed languages have shown that can be expressed by various structures mechanisms such lexical signs, manual gestures (e.g., Palm Up gestures) embodiment/mental space blends. We will examine if these findings apply to Language, identify other means expressing VGT. exploratory study, focus following questions: (1) which articulators semiotic resources used express stance?; (2) How are visible bodily actions through different integrated temporally expressions? Our study is based analysis about five hours data from Corpus Language. present examples our dataset illustrate range (such gestures, enactment, non-manual features), either sequentially or simultaneously multitude articulators. Moreover, zoom phenomenon stance-stacking analyse how multiple combined