Examples of film editing in Uruguayan sign language

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https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2025.v21n2a67682

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In the following article, an analysis of a narrative in Uruguayan sign language (LSU) is proposed, based on the highly iconic structures proposed by Cuxac (2000) and cinematic editing. The central idea is that sign languages exploit their visual modality to express themselves through iconic structures that function and articulate with each other in a way that is more similar to a visual medium of expression, such as cinema, than to the arbitrary syntax found in spoken languages.
Keywords: Sign languages. Iconicity. Cinematic language. Highly iconic structures.

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Santiago Val, Universidad de la República (Udelar)

Profesor Adjunto del Área de Estudios Sordos (Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República). Doctor en Lingüística (FHCE, Udelar). Magíster en Ciencias Humanas, opción: Lenguaje, Cultura y Sociedad. Licenciado en Comunicación Audiovisual. Mi actividad de investigación se relaciona principalmente con la descripción de las unidades y estructuras icónicas presentes en la lengua de señas uruguaya y en las lenguas de señas en general. Desde una perspectiva más amplia, esto se relaciona también con otras disciplinas, como la semiótica y los estudios sobre gestualidad y su relación con los sistemas lingüísticos. Otras áreas de investigación en las que también participo involucran lexicografía, accesibilidad, historia de la lengua de señas uruguaya y, vinculado a esto último, los inicios de la escuelas de sordos en nuestro país,.

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2025-08-30

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Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): Cognitive Linguistics: diversity and interfaces on Translation and Interpretation Studies

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