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Lexical Demonstrations in Spoken and sign Languages| title | Lexical Demonstrations in Spoken and sign Languages |
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| start_date | 2024/01/18 |
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| schedule | 11h30-13h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Salle de réunion |
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| summary | Typologicalresearch has shown that many typologically different spoken languages haveideophones, a special class of words which can be defined as “an open lexicalclass of marked words that depict sensory imagery” (Dingemanse 2019). Based ondata from German Sign Language (DGS), we argue that also sign languages have aspecial class of signs, so-called idiomatic signs, that share the definingproperties of ideophones and show related semantic behavior. Building onco-speech gesture semantic approaches (Ebert et al. 2020) and applications thereofto ideophones (Barnes & Ebert 2023), we suggest an account thatcompositionally derives the meaning of these idiomatic signs. We show that ideophonesas well as idiomatic signs consist of a conventionalized at-issue meaning partand a gestural non-at-issue part, whose meaning can vary from utterancesituation to utterance situation and is dependent on how the ideophone/idiomaticsign is produced in the given situation. We hence argue that sign languagesjust like many spoken languages have a special openclass of marked lexical expressions that depict sensory imagery. Unlikeideophones in spoken languages, however, the depiction of idiomatic signs isnot auditory but visual. And unlike other iconic lexical expressions in signlanguages, idiomatic signs are depictive context-dependent expressions with aparticularly expressive meaning component, that is, the iconic features(especially the iconic nonmanual ones) typically contribute an expressivedepictive meaning component that is dependent on the very performance of thesign in a specific situation. |
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| responsibles | Chemla |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/04/22 13:19 UTC |
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