Pasquale Rinaldi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Pasquale Rinaldi is involved.
2025 Action depiction in gestures and signs: A comparative semiotic approach Sign Language & Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The relation between gestures and signs is highly debated both in gestures and sign language studies. Addressing the common symbolic ground from which both gestures and signs arise could improve our general knowledge about the body’s role in meaning construction and in shaping communication. To… read more
2020 Gestural symbolic strategies in children with Down syndrome Gesture 19:2/3, pp. 299–334 | Article
In early communicative development, children with Down syndrome (DS) make extensive use of gestures to compensate for articulatory difficulties. Here, we analyzed the symbolic strategies that underlie this gesture production, compared to that used by typically developing children. Using the same… read more
2020 From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 216–238 | Chapter
We review major developmental evidence on the continuity from action to gesture to word and sign in human children, highlighting the important role of caregivers in the development of multimodal communication. In particular, the basic issues considered here and contributing to the current debate… read more
2018 From action to spoken and signed language through gesture: Some basic developmental issues for a discussion on the evolution of the human language-ready brain How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 216–238 | Article
We review major developmental evidence on the continuity from action to gesture to word and sign in human children, highlighting the important role of caregivers in the development of multimodal communication. In particular, the basic issues considered here and contributing to the current debate… read more
2017 Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 13–41 | Article
What is linguistic communication and what is it not? Even if we often convey meanings through visible bodily actions, these are rarely considered part of human language. However, co-verbal gestures have compositional structure and semantic significance, while highly iconic structures are… read more