definition of Role Shift

Theresa Smith tbsmith at ESKIMO.COM
Sun Mar 11 02:43:04 UTC 2001


Does anyone have a good definition for Role Shift as used in ASL beyond
"reported speech" or "constructed speech"?  It seems (certainly at the
level of discourse) to be much richer than constructed speech in
English.  Should that matter?

Thank you in advance,
Theresa

Theresa B. Smith
ASLIS



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