探討身體分類詞在台灣手語中的形式與功能

Exploring the Forms and Functions of Body Classifier in Taiwan Sign Language

賀豫琤(Yu-cheng Ho)

指導教授 ： 張榮興

國立中正大學/文學院/語言學研究所/碩士(2014年)

摘要

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並列摘要

In signed languages, the body can deliver rich messages. Signers often view themselves as the referents they are discussing and act like in the real-world situation. When a signer uses his/her body to describe a referent’s action in question, the use of body in linguistics has various names, for example, ‘body classifier’ (Supalla 1986), ‘constructed action’ (Metzger 1995; Aarons and Morgan 2003), or ‘full form pronoun’ (Kegl 2003). As for the function of the use of body, Perniss (2007) states that a signer is in ‘character perspective’ when he/she uses his/her body to narrate events.

In this thesis we use the body classifier which is categorized into non-projected body classifier and projected body classifier (cf. Kegl 2003). The former refers to the signer’s body as a pronoun affected by an action, while the latter refers to the projection of an invisible body affected by an action in the signing space. This thesis discusses body classifier in Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) and aims to explore the forms and the functions of the classifier. The first issue for discussion is about the verb forms of the verbal complement of the verb ‘help’ in TSL when describing the concept ‘someone helped someone else do something’.

The second issue is about the distributions of the projected body classifier. We explore in what condition the projected body classifier can occur and in what condition it can’t.

The third issue is to explore the functions of the projected body classifier. In other words, we figure out why the projected body classifier construction is preferred when the expression involves manner adverbials such as CAREFULLY, ANNOYINGLY, and LABORIOUSLY. Besides, we also focus on the recipient argument’s reaction so that we can examine whether the projected body classifier is preferred in that situation.

並列關鍵字

body classifier ； Taiwan Sign Language ； agentivity

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