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Publication details [#53010]

Quinto-Pozos, David and Sarika Mehta. 2010. Register variation in mimetic gestural complements to signed language. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (3) : 557–878.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

audience design | gesture | register | sign language

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores one type of gesture, constructed action, which is characteristically mimetic and enables depiction of a character's actions with the speaker's body, as it complements narratives rendered in American Sign Language (ASL) to various audiences.