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Body Partitioning in ASL Metaphorical Blends
- Sign Language Studies
- Gallaudet University Press
- Volume 5, Number 3, Spring 2005
- pp. 317-332
- 10.1353/sls.2005.0012
- Article
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This article addresses body partitioning in American Sign Language (ASL). Specifically, it demonstrates how partitioning allows for greater contributions of conceptual metaphor to the structuring of complex grounded blends.