Simona Sbranna
List of John Benjamins publications in which Simona Sbranna is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 9. The multimodal turn in corpus building: Lessons from language documentation and sign language corpora The Documentarist Turn: From observable linguistic behaviour to typological generalizations, Riesberg, Sonja, Uta Reinöhl and Birgit Hellwig (eds.), pp. 210–238 | Chapter
This chapter argues for a decisive shift in corpus-building practices toward a Multimodal Turn. For decades, smaller-scale spoken and signed languages were less available for linguistic corpus research due to the scarcity of corpora, but the situation has changed: language documentation now… read more
2024 A multi-dimensional analysis of backchannels in L1 German, L1 Italian and L2 German Language, Interaction and Acquisition 15:2, pp. 243–277 | Article
Previous research has found that vocal feedback, referred to as backchannels, has positive effects on social interaction, especially by indicating listener engagement. For second language (L2) learners, however, backchannels can be challenging, because their use is bound by cultural and… read more