Classifier Predicates and the Creation of Multiple Perspectives in South African Sign Language

Aarons, Debra; Morgan, Ruth

doi:10.1353/sls.2003.0001

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“…Sign language researchers have used the term constructed action to refer to a signer's use of various parts of her body (e.g. head, torso, eye gaze) to depict the postures or actions of a character (Aarons and Morgan, 2003;Liddell and Metzger, 1998;Metzger, 1995, among others). Wilkinson et al (2010), in their discussion of speakers with agrammatic aphasia re-presenting previous events, use the term 'enactment'.…”

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Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

Thompson

Suzuki

2014

Discourse Studies

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In a reenactment, a speaker re-presents or depicts a previously occurring event, often dramatically. In this article we examine the role of gaze in reenactments in conversations from Japanese and American English. Following Goodwin in viewing a reenacted story as 'a multi-modal, multi-party field of activity', we show how tellers' and recipients' gaze during reenactments is deployed to achieve specific interactional ends. We argue that there are two layers of activities involved in doing reenacting -a) the habitat of the original event; b) the habitat of the reenacting event, including the dynamics of gaining appreciative recipiency -and show how they are interwoven in the joint production of a reenactment.

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Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

Thompson

Suzuki

2014

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“…Specifically, Aarons and Morgan (2000;2003) examine the syntax of classifier predicates in SASL, while Vermeerbergen, van Herreweghe, Akach and Matabane (2007) look at the word order of SASL, comparing it with that of Flemish Sign Language (VGT).…”

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A preliminary look at negative constructions in South African Sign Language: Question-Answer clauses

Huddlestone

2018

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How negation is expressed by means of manual and/or non-manual markers has been described in a wide range of sign languages. This work has suggested a split between sign languages requiring a manual negative element in negative clauses (manual dominant sign languages) and those where a non-manual marker only can be used (non-manual dominant sign languages) (Zeshan 2006;2004). To date there is only one published study on negation in SASL which describes SASL as a non-manual dominant language (De Barros and Siebörger 2016). However, Oomen and Pfau (2017) have recently indicated that such a typological split is too radical. They show that larger data sets are necessary to identify the range of expressions used within one sign language to express negation. This paper will contribute to this typological debate by considering some preliminary data from South African Sign Language (SASL), highlighting a particular construction, known as a polar Question-Answer clause, which is not generally mentioned in the literature on negation in sign languages. The paper will conclude with a reflection on the implications of these observations for a typology of negation in sign languages.

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“…Many studies have looked at the phenomena of viewpoint and perspective in sign languages across the world (e.g., Engberg-Pedersen, 1993Liddell, 1998Liddell, , 2003Aarons & Morgan, 2003;Morgan & Woll, 2003;Perniss, 2007), and [2] For different terminologies, see, for example, Bryant and Tversky (1999), Emmorey, Tversky, and Taylor (2000), and Kita and Özyürek (2003).…”

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Separating viewpoint from mode of representation in iconic co-speech gestures: insights from Danish narratives

Frederiksen¹

2017

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a b st r a c t During narrative retelling, speakers shift between different viewpoints to reflect how they conceptualize the events that unfolded. These viewpoints can be indicated through gestural means as well as through verbal ones. Studies of co-speech gestures have inferred viewpoint from gesture form, i.e., how entities are mapped onto the (primarily manual) articulators, but the merits of this approach have not been discussed. The present study argues that viewpoint is more than gestural form. Despite connections between the two, many other factors may influence a gesture's form. Assessing viewpoint from gesture form alone limits the applicability of gestural viewpoint as a window onto speakers' event conceptualization and introduces unnecessary differences in the categorization of viewpoint across gestures types. The present study examines iconic co-speech gestures in Danish narratives, and makes explicit the means used to infer gestural viewpoint. The approach advocated here ensures that the notion of viewpoint can be applied in a principled way to all or most iconic gestures.k e y w o r d s : viewpoint, gesture, sign language, role-shift, mode of representation.

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Classifier Predicates and the Creation of Multiple Perspectives in South African Sign Language

Cited by 44 publications

References 8 publications

Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

Reenactments in conversation: Gaze and recipiency

A preliminary look at negative constructions in South African Sign Language: Question-Answer clauses

Separating viewpoint from mode of representation in iconic co-speech gestures: insights from Danish narratives

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