Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2025
The third chapter of this guide to improving your BSL focuses predominantly on use of the signing space around the body, and pays particular attention to improving your use of pointing, perspective and collocation. Section 3.1 provides detailed explanation of the way that interlocutors make reference to many different things during a conversation and explains that this act of referencing (or pointing) in this way is called ‘deixis’. Several types of deixis are illustrated, along with following discussion of how correct use of perspective and collocation are important. The following section, 3.2, provides examples of common errors made in relation to pronominal and temporal deixis and how to correct them. This includes explanation of the typical perspective and collocation errors that are made when learners overuse the signing space. Sections 3.3 and 3.4 provide exercises that a BSL learner can do to improve use of pointing and to enhance awareness of the perspectives that are evoked when the signing space is used correctly.
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