Elaborating Who's What: A Study of Constructed Action and Clause Structure in Auslan (Australian Sign Language)

Ferrara, Lindsay; Johnston, Trevor

doi:10.1080/07268602.2014.887405

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“…Secondly, the manifestations of CA have not been classified into compositional sub-categories (see Cormier et al 2015a). As in Hodge and Ferrara (2013) and in Ferrara and Johnston (2014) for example, CA is approached in this paper as an articulatorily holistic phenomenon.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…And in clauses where lexically expressed core arguments have been omitted, CA may even be the only cue through which the participant information of the encoded event can be interpreted (e.g. Cormier et al 2013;Hodge & Ferrara 2013;Ferrara & Johnston 2014;Hodge & Johnston 2014;Cormier et al 2015a). In general, it is also known that the phenomenon of CA is not limited to the domain of sign languages but is also available to speakers of spoken languages.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(Mayer 1969), also used in research into CA in, for example, Auslan, the sign language of Australia (e.g. Hodge & Ferrara 2013;Ferrara & Johnston 2014). The data has been recorded for the corpus of FinSL and annotated for signs, translations, grammar and phonetic events.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Puupponen et al 2015;Puupponen 2018), has a defining role -is a form of gestural enactment and in many recent works (at least since Liddell & Metzger 1998) is referred to as constructed action, abbreviated here as CA (e.g. Hodge & Ferrara 2013;Ferrara & Johnston 2014; in the literature, aspects of the physical activity constituting CA have also been investigated with the help of such notions as role shift, reference shift, transfert personnel and surrogate blending, see e.g. Padden 1990, Sandler & Lillo-Martin 2006, Cuxac 2000and Liddell 2003.…”

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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language

Jantunen

2017

Open Linguistics

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This paper investigates the interplay of constructed action and the clause in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). Constructed action is a form of gestural enactment in which the signers use their hands, face and other parts of the body to represent the actions, thoughts or feelings of someone they are referring to in the discourse. With the help of frequencies calculated from corpus data, this article shows firstly that when FinSL signers are narrating a story, there are differences in how they use constructed action. Then the paper argues that there are differences also in the prototypical structure, linkage type and non-manual activity of clauses, depending on the presence or non-presence of constructed action. Finally, taking the view that gesturality is an integral part of language, the paper discusses the nature of syntax in sign languages and proposes a conceptualization in which syntax is seen as a set of norms distributed on a continuum between a categorial-conventional end and a gradient-unconventional end.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Constructed Action, the Clause and the Nature of Syntax in Finnish Sign Language

Jantunen

2017

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“…It has been argued that the use of gestural elements and constructed action may influence the grammatical structure of signing in different ways (see e.g. [12], [13]). In the current study, showing an event (gestural enactment) was a more common strategy in SSL narratives and telling about an event more common in FinSL narratives.…”

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confidence: 99%