?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Showing+the+story%3A+Enactment+as+performance+in+Auslan+narratives&rft.creator=Hodge%2C+GCE&rft.creator=Ferrara%2C+L&rft.description=Language+use+may+be+understood+as+creative+and+partly+improvised+performance.+For+example%2C+during+face-to-face+interaction%2C+both+signers+and+speakers+coordinate+manual+and+non-manual+semiotic+resources+to+enact+characters%2C+events+and+points+of+view.+Here+we+present+an+early+exploration+of+how+enactments%E2%80%94constructed+actions+and+dialogue+that+are+effectively+tokens+of+improvised+performance%E2%80%94are+patterned+throughout+Auslan+(Australian+sign+language)+narratives.+We+compare+retellings+of+Frog%2C+Where+Are+You%3F+and+The+Boy+Who+Cried+Wolf+that+were+elicited+from+native+and+near-native+Auslan+signers+and+archived+in+the+Auslan+Corpus.+We+find+commonalities+and+differences+between+the+two+narratives+and+between+individuals+that+contribute+insights+into+the+role+of+enactment+for+both+signers+and+speakers.+This+study+aligns+with+views+of+face-to-face+interaction+as+a+multimodal%2C+highly+complex+semiotic+practice+of+partly+improvised+performance.&rft.subject=Auslan%2C+sign+language%2C+enactment%2C+constructed+action%2C+performance%2C+corpus&rft.publisher=University+of+Melbourne&rft.contributor=Gawne%2C+L&rft.contributor=Vaughn%2C+J&rft.date=2014&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.publisher=44th+Conference+of+the+Australian+Linguistic+Society&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A+Gawne%2C+L+and+Vaughn%2C+J%2C+(eds.)+Selected+Papers+from+the+44th+Conference+of+the+Australian+Linguistic+Society%2C+2013.++(pp.+pp.+372-397).++University+of+Melbourne%3A+Melbourne%2C+Australia.+(2014)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1556178%2F1%2FHodge_Showing_story_Enactment_performance.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1556178%2F&rft.rights=open