-
Eye Gaze in Creative Sign Language
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 13, Number 3, Spring 2013
- pp. 372-400
- 10.1353/sls.2013.0008
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
Abstract
This article discusses the role of eye gaze in creative sign language. Because eye gaze conveys various types of linguistic and poetic information, it is an intrinsic part of sign language linguistics in general and of creative signing in particular. We discuss various functions of eyegaze in poetic signing and propose a classification of gaze behaviors based on the observation of a number of poems in British Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language.
collapse
You are not currently authenticated.
If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution or have your own login and password to Project MUSE
Authenticate
