Pejorative aspects attributed to hearing people in signed constructed dialogue

Fischer, Renate; Kollien, Simon

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“…The signer who produces this mocking enactment thereby excludes herself from this group and associated identities. While it is clear that mocking enactments contribute to the identity construction of self and others ( Fischer and Simon, 2016 ; Gilbert, 2018 ; Van De Mieroop, 2020 ), both locally and beyond the borders of an interaction, the relation between these two dimensions remains largely unexplored. Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research may uncover how mocking enactments are used to construct identities and (distancing) stances on a larger sociocultural scale.…”

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“…As such, multiple stances can be expressed through enactment simultaneously, e.g., by enacting a referent in an exaggerated or stereotypical way to mock them by means of a caricature of a social category attributed to the referent. Fischer and Simon (2016) , for example, describe how DGS (German Sign Language) signers use exaggerated mouth gestures in negatively evaluative enactments of hearing people. However, as will be shown in Section 4, mocking can be achieved through a range of different mechanisms next to parodistic imitations.…”

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Mocking enactments: a case study of multimodal stance-stacking

de Vries,

Andries,

Meissl

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Although research into multimodal stance-taking has gained momentum over the past years, the multimodal construction of so-called stacked stances has not yet received systematic attention in the literature. Mocking enactments are a prime example of such complex social actions as they are layered both interactionally and stance-related, and they rely significantly on the use of bodily visual resources, depicting rather than describing events and stances. Using Du Bois’ Stance Triangle as a framework, this study investigates mocking enactments as a case study to unravel the multimodal aspects of layered stance expressions. Drawing on three data sets—music instruction in Dutch, German, and English, spontaneous face-to-face interactions among friends in Dutch, and narrations on past events in Flemish Sign Language (VGT)—this study provides a qualitative exploration of mocking enactments across different communicative settings, languages, and modalities. The study achieves three main objectives: (1) illuminating how enactments are used for mocking, (2) identifying the layers of stance-taking at play, and (3) examining the multimodal construction of mocking enactments. Our analysis reveals various different uses of enactments for mocking. Aside from enacting the target of the mockery, participants can include other characters and viewpoints, highlighting the breadth of the phenomenon under scrutiny. Second, we uncover the layered construction of stance on all axes of the Stance Triangle (evaluation, positioning, and alignment). Third, we find that mocking enactments are embedded in highly evaluative contexts, indexed by the use of bodily visual resources. Interestingly, not all mocking enactments include a multimodally exaggerated depiction, but instead, some merely allude to an absurd hypothetical scenario. Our findings contribute to the growing body of literature on multimodal stance-taking, by showing how a nuanced interpretation of the Stance Triangle can offer a useful framework for analyzing layered stance acts.

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Mocking enactments: a case study of multimodal stance-stacking

de Vries,

Andries,

Meissl

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Stance in Flemish Sign Language

Andries

Brône

Vermeerbergen

2022

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In this contribution, we offer a first exploration of stance expressions in Flemish Sign Language (VGT). Biber and Finegan (1989) define stance as the expression of feelings, attitudes, judgments, commitments, and assessments. The few studies focusing on stance in signed languages have shown that stance can be expressed by various structures and mechanisms such as lexical signs, manual gestures (e.g., Palm Up gestures) and embodiment/mental space blends. We will examine if these findings apply to Flemish Sign Language, and we will identify other means of expressing stance in VGT. In this exploratory study, we focus on the following questions: (1) which articulators and semiotic resources can be used in Flemish Sign Language to express stance?; and (2) How are visible bodily actions through different articulators integrated temporally in stance expressions? Our study is based on the analysis of about five hours of data from the Corpus Flemish Sign Language. We present examples from our dataset to illustrate that stance can be expressed through a range of structures and mechanisms (such as lexical signs, manual gestures, enactment, and non-manual features), expressed either sequentially or simultaneously by a multitude of articulators. Moreover, we zoom in on the phenomenon of stance-stacking and analyse how multiple stance expressions can be combined in VGT.

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Pejorative aspects attributed to hearing people in signed constructed dialogue

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Mocking enactments: a case study of multimodal stance-stacking

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