Enactment and complex stance-taking in Flemish Sign Language: a multimodal approach

This dataset was analyzed as part of the dissertation project "Enactment and complex stance-taking in Flemish Sign Language: a multimodal approach" (Andries, 2025). The dataset contains the video clips that served as examples in the dissertation as well as an ELAN template for the annotation and analysis of co-enactment in signed interactions. The study investigates how VGT signers use enactment in complex stance acts. Drawing on a dataset of five hours of dyadic conversations between VGT signers, the dissertation presents a bundle of six studies shedding light on the various uses of enactment for stance-taking, focussing on the semiotic composition of enactments, their temporal embedding and the co-constructed nature of enactment in the context of stance-taking. This dissertation touches on two key components of complex stance acts: 1) the temporal relation of multiple stance acts, and 2) the combination of multiple viewpoints to express complex stances. A systematic multimodal analysis of enactments in dialogic interactions has provided novel insights into their potential for co-construction and the semiotic composition when combined with narration in VGT.