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Introducing Sign Language Literature, Folklore, and creativity Chapter 6…
Introducing Sign Language Literature, Folklore, and creativity Chapter 6
Visual Images
Tell It
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talk about a car accident by using established signs CAR & ACCIDENT, which in many sign languages are visually motivated
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Can boost their visual effect by revitalizing aspects of the sign that may not seem visually significant when it is out of the art-sign context
Show It
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Highly productive signs that show the form, location & movement of the referent
Instead of referring to the car accident by the established signs CAR & ACCIDENT we can describe what physically happened by using a flat 'B; handshape classifier representing a car and how it crashed into a wall
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Become It
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Has many names, including role shift, incorporation, person transfer & personation
Signer can take on the role of the people involved in the accident so 'becoming them' to directly report what happened to them, how it happened & what they felt about it
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