Betreff: Quotatives

Tue Mar 9 18:30:11 UTC 2004

Alysse,

If I understand Dan correctly, he would be talking about the use of Role Shifting in ASL that is used to show direct quotations.  Like he suspects, this is a pretty rich area of ASL discourse.  

Donald A. Grushkin, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor/Coordinator, ASL Program 
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From: For the discussion of linguistics and signed languages. [mailto:SLLING-L at ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA]On Behalf Of Alysse Rasmussen
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Subject: Re: Betreff: Quotatives

Can you give one or two ASL examples to help us put it all together?

PS Thanks for your support at UCF.  :)

Alysse

In a message dated 3/9/2004 11:29:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, dparvaz at MAC.COM writes:

Quotatives introduce speech and actions that appear to be direct quotations or demonstrated actions, and attribute them to the subject. And example in English is

(1) And he's all, "La, la, la.." (looking around not paying attention)
(2) And mom's all, "Are you wearing that?"

So the action exmplified by humming and not paying attention are attributed to "he". The "you" in (2) actually refers to the speaker. A German example would be

(3) Und ich so: Mensch! Wie kannst du sowas sagen?

So the "du" doesn't refer to the adressee in the immediate context, but to someone in the narrated event. A final example is Sanskrit "iti" which can be used to introduce literal quotations, but can also be used to discuss states of mind, intention, etc. in something analogous to "I'm going to Grandma's house ITI she went into the forest." Note that in none of these cases can one infer that anyone actually *said* anything.

I'd like to think that ASL (and SLs in general) has a very rich set of these.

Cheers,

Dan.

Hi, Dan,
what do you mean with "quotatives"? Give an example.
Thanks,
Daniela 

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Betreff: Quotatives

Casting a net out...

Is anyone out there working on quotatives in SLs? I've been kicking around a couple of ideas, and I just need to see if anyone is working on this..

Cheers,

Dan.

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