Talk:Constructed action and dialogue

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Hello all!

I am an American University student who has been assigned to help add content to a Wikipedia page as a part of my class. This is my first attempt at anything Wikipedia related, and I am completely open to critiques, so please let me know what you think!

Overall, I would like to expand to a more intricate usage of constructed action in communication forms, because of the simplicity of the information so far. While it is a great and much needed base to start off from, the phenomena of constructed action takes on much more meaning and importance in communication than it is currently given.

Potential references and why:

Ferrara, L., & Johnston, T. (2014). Elaborating Who’s What: A Study of Constructed Action and Clause Structure in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Australian Journal of Linguistics, 34(2), 193–215. https://doi.org/10.1080/07268602.2014.887405

This is talking about the importance of constructed action in Australian sign language in reference to the social aspects of how people decide to sign. It is made clear that the constructed action practiced is not necessary to get the information to someone else, but is what has been learned and implemented by the community

BEAL-ALVAREZ, J. S., & TRUSSELL, J. W. (2015). Depicting Verbs and Constructed Action: Necessary Narrative Components in Deaf Adults’ Storybook Renditions. Sign Language Studies, 16(1), 5–29. https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2015.0023

This article focuses on American sign language users, and how regardless of how or when they learned ASL, they all conveyed a picture storybook in ASL in a very similar manner in regards to the constructed action, which was found to help give information and keep everyone on the same page.

Quinto-Pozos, D. (2007). Why Does Constructed Action Seem Obligatory? An Analysis of “Classifiers” and the Lack of Articulator-Referent Correspondence. Sign Language Studies, 7(4), 458–506. https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2007.0027

This article suggests that constructed action often is used in sign language separate of upper body movements, but sometimes will have both occur based on the topic that is being covered to get the most descriptive information to the other person in a situation.

Please let me know if there is anyway I can make this more helpful to the page!

Mr0960a (talk) 01:36, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

You could also look at Tannen 1986 "Introducing constructed dialogue in Greek and American conversational and literary narrative", which deals with a somewhat different idea of constructed dialogue that isn't specific to sign languages. Daniel (talk) 04:02, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

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