Context Shift and Indexical Variables in Sign Languages
Context Shift and Indexical Variables in Sign Languages
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手语中的语境转换和索引变量
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2005
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J. Quer
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J. Quer
The linguistic resources displayed by sign languages (SLs) in order to reproduce someone else’s utterances or thoughts have remained absent from the semantic research on reported discourse till very recently. This paper aims at contributing some fresh SL data to the discussion about the proper characterization of indexical interpretation in reported discourse/thought contexts. I will defend a unified treatment of quotational and non-quotational use of role shift in SLs, in line with Zucchi (2004) and other previous research. A covert Point of View Operator will be held responsible for the morphological and semantic properties of role shift constructions. One partial conclusion will be that the crosslinguistic validity of the “Shift-Together Constraint” by Anand & Nevins (2004) might not be instantiated in the SLs examined. The new data discussed comes mainly from Catalan Sign Language (LSC), the SL used by the Deaf Community in Catalonia. However, I also undertake limited crosslinguistic comparisons with published American Sign Language (ASL), Lingua Italiana dei Segni (LIS) and Danish Sign Language (DSL) data.