Multimodality on Screen and the Filmic Potential of Sign Languages
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This chapter reviews the representation of multimodality on screen and the filmic potential of sign languages. In the introduction, I review the concept of multimodality, gesture and language and I state my positionality in this academic writing in particular. In Sect. 2, I revisit the concept of multilingualism and multimodality in the audiovisual context and I discuss the representation of sign languages both as target and as source languages of audiovisual communication. In Sect. 3, I review the implications of multimodality in the media on the profile of signers and on training, among others. In Sect. 4, I argue in favour of the filmic potential of sign languages. Finally, in the conclusions, I point at the need of a profound revision of the hegemony of oral languages in filmmaking and I argue that the audiovisual industry is an active stakeholder in the systematic denial to participate to deaf people. Finally, I advocate for non-dichotomic views and fuzziness in our understanding of audiovisual communication.
En The Palgrave Handbook of Multilingualism and Language Varieties on Screen (pp. 533–551).