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    This document discusses constructed action and constructed dialogue in American Sign Language (ASL) narrative discourse. It summarizes previous research that has examined these discourse features and their role in ASL narratives. The current study applies a mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis to investigate the occurrence of constructed action and dialogue in 19 ASL narratives from Deaf signers across the United States. The results indicate that constructed action and dialogue play a major role in the structure of ASL narratives based on Labov's framework. The presentation will address the role of these features in narrative structure and discuss the impact of social factors.

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    This document discusses constructed action and constructed dialogue in American Sign Language (ASL) narrative discourse. It summarizes previous research that has examined these discourse features and their role in ASL narratives. The current study applies a mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis to investigate the occurrence of constructed action and dialogue in 19 ASL narratives from Deaf signers across the United States. The results indicate that constructed action and dialogue play a major role in the structure of ASL narratives based on Labov's framework. The presentation will address the role of these features in narrative structure and discuss the impact of social factors.

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    ConstructedActionandConstructedDialogueinASLNarrativeDiscourse

    MelanieMetzger&SusanMather
    GallaudetUniversity

    Constructed action and constructed dialogue, as an interactional sociolinguistic


    description of the role shifting commonly found in signed languages, has received
    increasing examination by signed language discourse analysts in recent years (Roy
    1989;Winston1991,1992;Metzger1995;Mather1996;Wilson1996;andLucasetal
    2001).
    Thesediscoursefeatureshavebeendescribedasinvolvementstrategiesatthediscourse
    level(seeRoy1898,Winston1992,andMetzger1995).However,theymayalsoplay
    an important role regarding discourse structure. Wilson (1996:175) suggests that
    constructeddialoguemayprovetobethefactorthatcontrolstheformandlengthof
    sections in [American Sign Language] ASL narratives. Additionally, the use of
    constructedactionanddialogueinASLdiscoursehasbeenfoundtohaveaninfluence
    ongrammaticalfeatures,suchassubjectpronounvariation(Lucasetal,2001:171).
    Thus, constructed action and constructed dialogue warrant further attention by
    researchers,andthisisthefocusofthecurrentstudy.
    Thismixedmethodstudyappliesbothaqualitativeandquantitativeanalysisbasedon
    19ASLnarrativesoccurringinconversationalinteractionbetweennativeDeafsigners
    ofASLfromsevensitesacrosstheUS.Thedataistakenfromanearlierstudy(see
    Lucasetal2001),butthefocusofthisinvestigationisontheoccurrenceofconstructed
    actionandconstructeddialoguesspecificallywithinthe19narratives,andinrelationto
    thenarrativediscoursestructure(asdefinedbytheLabovianframework(Labov1972).
    Resultsindicatethatconstructedactionanddialoguedoplayamajorroleinnarrative
    ASLdiscoursestructure.Thispresentationwilladdresstheroleofthesefeatureswithin
    thenarrativestructure,andwilldiscusstheimpactofsocialfactorssuchasage,gender,
    ethnicity,andregion.
    Thecurrentpaperbuildsonandextendspreviousstudiesofroleshiftingbyexamining
    constructed action and constructed dialogue as a discourse level feature. The
    implicationsofthisinteractionalsociolinguisticstudyareboththeoreticalandpractical
    innature.Resultsofthestudyimproveourunderstandingofthediscoursefeaturesof
    signed languages, and have implications for sociolinguistic analysis of signed
    languages,forappliedlinguisticssuchastheteachingofsignedlanguagediscourseto
    firstandsecondlanguagesusers,aswellastotheteachingofinterpreters.

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