Simultaneity of certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

IF 1.8 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2024.08.010
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As collaborative discourse participants, interlocutors are expected to convey how certain they are about the proposition that they put forward in the discourse. In spoken language literature, speakers use various strategies to convey their certainty like attitude verbs, prosody, or gestures. Sign language literature reports that signers mostly modulate their manual (hands) signs and nonmanuals (face and body movements), yet there is no study investigating how both channels interact in the expression of certainty. The current study tests the degree to which different sentence types and nonmanuals affect the signer certainty in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) in a rating study. I show that signers interpret signer certainty by taking into account cues from both manual and nonmanual channels. Within the framework of threshold semantics, I discuss how sentences set the certainty threshold, and show how nonmanuals boost or deboost the threshold. Specifically, head nod increases the threshold while squint decreases it, thus providing further support for the dynamic nature of thresholds.

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土耳其手语(TİD)中确定性的同时性
作为合作话语的参与者,对话者应该表达他们对自己在话语中提出的命题有多确定。在口语文献中,说话者使用各种策略来表达他们的确定性,如态度动词、拟声或手势。据手语文献报道,手语者大多会调节他们的手动(手势)和非手动(脸部和身体动作)手势,但目前还没有研究调查这两种渠道在表达确定性时是如何相互作用的。本研究在一项评分研究中测试了不同句子类型和非手语对土耳其手语(TİD)中手语者确定性的影响程度。我的研究表明,手语使用者在解释手语确定性时会同时考虑来自人工和非人工渠道的线索。在阈值语义学的框架内,我讨论了句子是如何设置确定性阈值的,并展示了非人工是如何提高或降低阈值的。具体来说,点头会提高阈值,而眯眼会降低阈值,从而为阈值的动态性质提供了进一步的支持。
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期刊介绍: Since 1977, the Journal of Pragmatics has provided a forum for bringing together a wide range of research in pragmatics, including cognitive pragmatics, corpus pragmatics, experimental pragmatics, historical pragmatics, interpersonal pragmatics, multimodal pragmatics, sociopragmatics, theoretical pragmatics and related fields. Our aim is to publish innovative pragmatic scholarship from all perspectives, which contributes to theories of how speakers produce and interpret language in different contexts drawing on attested data from a wide range of languages/cultures in different parts of the world. The Journal of Pragmatics also encourages work that uses attested language data to explore the relationship between pragmatics and neighbouring research areas such as semantics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis and ethnomethodology, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, media studies, psychology, sociology, and the philosophy of language. Alongside full-length articles, discussion notes and book reviews, the journal welcomes proposals for high quality special issues in all areas of pragmatics which make a significant contribution to a topical or developing area at the cutting-edge of research.
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