‘Authentic signing equals creative signing’: New perspectives on the enregisterment of creative language use in German Sign Language

Publication date: Available online 20 November 2018Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Hanna Jaeger, Sarah HarzerAbstractBased on qualitative analysis of signed data generated in the context of ten focus groups conducted with 31 deaf signers throughout Germany, the paper explores how deaf users of German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) position themselves in conversational settings. It will be shown that creatively manipulating the visual-spatial articulatory resources of DGS, the protagonists subtly but clearly delineate themselves from others, socially positioning themselves not only as rather skillful, but even more crucially, as authentic signers. Examining the enregisterment of creative language use (CLU) as indexical of authentic signing within the DGS community, the paper paves ...

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