Perspective Shift Across Modalities

Emar Maier

doi:10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-021042

Perspective Shift Across Modalities

2022-01-14

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DOI：10.1146/annurev-linguistics-031120-021042

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Languages offer various ways to present what someone said, thought, imagined, felt, and so on from their perspective. The prototypical example of a perspective-shifting device is direct quotation. In this review we define perspective shift in terms of indexical shift: A direct quotation like Selena said, 'Oh, I don't know.' involves perspective shift because the first-person indexical 'I' refers to Selena, not to the actual speaker. We then discuss a variety of noncanonical modality-specific perspective-shifting devices: role shift in sign language, quotatives in spoken language, free indirect discourse in written language, and point-of-view shift in visual language. We show that these devices permit complex mixed forms of perspective shift which may involve nonlinguistic gestural as well as visual components.

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perspective

role shift

visual language

free indirect discourse

gesture

indexicals

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