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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theoryVirginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
[Gesture Studies 9] 2022
► pp. 101–132
Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
[Gesture Studies 9] 2022
► pp. 101–132
Chapter 4Constructing sentences
In this chapter, the modifications of meaning units are described. Patterns characterizing the various signs modifications along a continuum ranging from the semantic to the pragmatic dimension are illustrated. Signers modify and create linguistic relations among signs by using their hands as well as their entire bodies to point at, to describe or to depict the referent. Consequently, the construction of discourse and conversation in LIS are described, taking into consideration their articulatory, cognitive, and semantic-pragmatic constraints of a sociolinguistic nature.
Article outline
- 4.1Expressive strategies and structural modifications
- 4.2Inflecting units of meaning
- Quantity
- Quality differences
- Location
- Aspect
- Manner
- Agentivity
- Action location
- Time
- 4.3Discourse in LIS
- Deictic units (DUs) in discourse
- Lexical units (LU) and transfer units (TU) in discourse
- 4.4Conversing in LIS
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