A multimodal approach to reformulation

Abstract Reformulation is remarkably frequent in discourse and has been the subject of much work spoken languages, both on written oral data. Because its metalinguistic nature, combined with general aim clarifying an expression, act reformulation offers a window to way speakers process adjust their expression discourse. However, date, study hardly taken into account now increasingly recognized multimodal semiotically composite nature language. This aims revisit notion from perspective by comparing use semiotic composition reformulations signers, as well productions interpreters. In doing so, we lay foundations for comparative signed language that accounts multimodality complexity practices different human ecologies.