TY  - GEN
EP  - 397
AV  - public
SP  - 372
Y1  - 2014///
TI  - Showing the story: Enactment as performance in Auslan narratives
N1  - This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
PB  - University of Melbourne
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/11343/40973
ID  - discovery1556178
N2  - Language use may be understood as creative and partly improvised performance. For example, during face-to-face interaction, both signers and speakers coordinate manual and non-manual semiotic resources to enact characters, events and points of view. Here we present an early exploration of how enactments?constructed actions and dialogue that are effectively tokens of improvised performance?are patterned throughout Auslan (Australian sign language) narratives. We compare retellings of Frog, Where Are You? 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, highly complex semiotic practice of partly improvised performance.
KW  - Auslan
KW  -  sign language
KW  -  enactment
KW  -  constructed action
KW  -  performance
KW  -  corpus
A1  - Hodge, GCE
A1  - Ferrara, L
T3  - Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
CY  - Melbourne, Australia
ER  -