25.2555, Books: Locating the difference: Zwets

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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 12:30:16
From: Martine Paulissen [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Locating the difference: Zwets

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Title: Locating the difference 
Subtitle: A comparison between Dutch pointing gestures and pointing signs in Sign
Language of the Netherlands

Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2014 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html 

Author: Martine Zwets

Hardback: ISBN: 9789460931  Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates similarities and dissimilarities between
pointing signs in Sign Language of the Netherlands and pointing gestures in
spoken Dutch. A corpus of pointing signs was compared to a corpus of pointing
gestures, which revealed that form as well as basic function is similar in the
two modalities. Pointing is best described as the extension of one or more
selected fingers that project a line into space, indicating a location. All
pointing is directed at a location, whether or not this location is occupied
by something, and whether or not the location or the object occupying the
location is the intended referent of the pointing. As for the interpretation
of pointing, three constraints play a role in determining the intended
referent: referents are sought in the surrounding space of the sender and the
addressee, referents are more likely to be objects than locations, and
linguistic information is crucial in the interpretation of pointing. A
distinction between pointing signs and pointing gestures was found in those
cases where pointing to an empty location was used to refer to an absent
object. Such a pointing can be either pointing to an imaginary object in a
mental or narrative space, in which case the location is motivated, or it can
be pointing to an empty location in order to localize a discourse referent for
the purpose of future reference. In this case the location is not motivated.
There is a difference between pointing in sign language and spoken language
for this function.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     Dutch Sign Language (dse)

Written In: English  (eng)

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