Making referents seen and heard across signed and spoken languages: documenting and interpreting cross-modal differences in the use of enactment

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When enacting, a language user denotes a referent and the latter`s actions (bodily behaviour, emotions, thoughts, utterances) using depiction, a method of signaling exploiting perceptual resemblances between communicative forms and their meanings (Clark, 1996; Cormier et_al, 2015). The focus now turns to a comparative semiotics of enactment. viewpoint gesture," "role shift" and "constructed action," among others (McNeill, 1992; Herrmann and Steinbach, 2012; Cormier et_al, 2015). After arguing that these issues undermine the understanding of enactment across SLs and SpLs, I expand on one way to test claims about the factors which cause cross . . .

 



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