"Air quotes"?

[Nassira Nicola]

So, on a lighter note . . .

I was curious (ok, baffled) - what is the preferred gloss for the ASL sign
roughly corresponding to "air quotes"?  In other contexts, I've seen it
glossed as TITLE and ISSUE, but when it follows a string of signed discourse
which is deliberately and self-consciously "Englishy," how would y'all gloss
it?

(Example: "SHE WORK WHERE? NATIONAL CENTER ON DEAF  -NESS air-quote" - where
the air-quote seems to serve as an acknowledgment that the signer would not
ordinarily sign such literal English, especially not "-NESS"...)


Thanks,  :c)


Nassira Nicola
Harvard University Department of Linguistics ('05)
nicola at fas.harvard.edu

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