Constructed Action in an Unfamiliar Sign Language Register

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Possible Functions of CA • Referents are made present in the discourse (e.g. not lexically specified / additional entities) • High information density: additional information is conveyed simultaneously • Efficient conveyance of meanings that can not easily be expressed lexically
Conclusion • “Oral” minority in a strongly literal society • Academia: Conceptual shift to a language use of high distance • CA as a language device used in this formal setting • Written English used for planning • Unfamiliar, underdeveloped register Technical realisation: Development of tools for SL, e.g. Dicta-Sign project Edit (www.dictasign.eu)
Page 1 and 2: Constructed Action in an Unfamiliar
Page 3 and 4: Sociocultural Context: Orality & Li
Page 5 and 6: Sign Languages & Academia • Incre
Page 7 and 8: Conception: Communicative Condition
Page 9 and 10: Immediacy & Distance in Sign Langua
Page 11 and 12: Constructed Action (CA) • The sig
Page 13 and 14: CA as a Functional Discourse Elemen
Page 15 and 16: Example from MSc Dissertation: •
Page 17 and 18: Parallelisation M24a CA / WAIT++ CA
Page 19: Occurrences of CA MSc dissertation:
Page 23: Acknowledgements CDS (Bristol), esp

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