Angry lions and scared neighbors: Complex demonstrations in sign language role shift at the sign-gesture interface

Sign languages make use of the full expressive power of the visual-gestural modality to report the utterances and/or actions of another person. A signer can shift into the perspective of one or more persons and reproduce the utterances or actions from the perspective of these persons. This modality-...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steinbach Markus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-03-01
Series:Linguistics
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0081