eLCA — An e-learning Unit for Acquiring Constructed Action

Fischer, Renate; Müller, A.-S.

doi:10.1057/9781137312495_6

Teaching and Learning Signed Languages 2014

DOI: 10.1057/9781137312495_6

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eLCA — An e-learning Unit for Acquiring Constructed Action

Renate Fischer¹,

A.-S. Müller²

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Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures

Müller

2022

Iconicity in Language and Literature

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Both film and signed languages are media that make use of iconicity and employ motion images for communicative and narrative purposes. This paper focuses on simultaneously presented images that occur in film for example as double exposures and in signed languages as simultaneous constructions. While film and signed languages differ in many ways with respect to iconicity, they can be compared with respect to the way simultaneously presented motion images relate to each other. Superimpositions are defined as a simultaneous view on two or more scenes or as giving two different simultaneous representations of one scene. They serve as a means of dense information packaging. While superimpositions strongly differ in their appearance in film and signed discourse, they exhibit some similarities of structure and functions. They exploit the iconicity of spatial relations emerging in the graphic spatial dimension. Their function is to express a spatial, intentional or temporal connection between two scenes or aspects of one scene, for example the intentional relation between a cognitive activity as seen in the face of a person and the object or content of that cognitive activity.

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Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures

Müller

2022

Iconicity in Language and Literature

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Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground

Konrad

Langer

Müller

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Iconicity in Language and Literature

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Sign Languages provide ways to create iconically motivated signs, that is, signs whose meaning is directly or indirectly connected to an underlying mental image expressed by the depictive elements of the sign’s form. While signs can be created and used to depict and therefore show what is meant, not all iconically motivated signs are used in this way. Signs of the established lexicon have meanings that are fixed by convention, although their form may be iconically motivated. In signing discourse established signs are used to denote objects, persons, situations or actions (function of ‘telling’). Once the context has thus been clarified iconic signs can be used in the function of ‘showing’. For this purpose, signers often create new, context-fitting iconic signs (‘productive signs’). However, iconically motivated established signs can also be used for showing by re-activating their underlying image and modifying their form. When analyzing data it sometimes is difficult to decide whether the sign should be classified as a modified established sign (‘iconic modification’) or as a productive sign. This decision is relevant for annotation (token-type-matching) as well as for the corpus-based lexicographic description of a sign’s usage. In this paper we discuss sequences of a telling sign followed by a showing sign found in the DGS Corpus. We suggest some criteria for the classification and explain where we would draw the line between iconic modification and productive signs.

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eLCA — An e-learning Unit for Acquiring Constructed Action

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Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures

Image superimposition in signed language discourse and in motion pictures

Where frozen signs reclaim iconic ground

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