Chapter 3
Iconicity
How signs relate to their referents
Article outline
- 3.1Processes of signification
- 3.2Base realization and feature selection
- 3.2.1Presenting
- 3.2.2Pointing
- 3.2.3Characterizing
- 3.2.3.1Enactment
- 3.2.3.2Body modeling
- 3.2.3.3Virtual depiction
- 3.3How the base relates to the referent
- 3.3.1Presenting signs
- 3.3.2Pointing signs
- 3.3.3Characterizing signs: Enactment
- 3.3.3.1Mimetic enactment signs
- 3.3.3.1.1Signs for actions
- 3.3.3.1.2Enactment signs for objects
- 3.3.3.1.3Enactments as signs for a setting or situation
- 3.3.3.1.4Enactment signs referring to state, disposition, or attitude
- 3.3.3.1.5Interpersonal gestures
- 3.3.3.2Analogic enactment signs
- 3.3.3.2.1Signs for general activities and processes
- 3.3.3.2.2Signs for animals and weather phenomena
- 3.3.4Characterizing signs realized by modeling, sketching, and measuring
- 3.3.5Conclusions
- 3.4Sign realization devices in two unrelated sign languages
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