Abstract In American Sign Language (ASL) narratives, signers map conceptualized spaces onto actual spaces around them that can reflect physical, conceptual, and metaphorical relations among entities. Because verb tenses are not attested in ASL, a question arises: How does a signer distinguish utterances about past events from utterances within a present conversational context? In narratives, the story-teller’s past-event utterances move the story along; accompanying these will often be subjective comments on the story, evaluative statements, and the like, that are geared, in the present, to the conversational partner. This usage-based study looks at how the ASL signer integrates past and present spaces in a narrative and specifically, integrates the viewpoints associated with each. Blending past and present spaces, while a conceptual notion, is in ASL played out in utterance structure and also in the fact that signed language articulation takes place in a three-dimensional space upon which both the signer and addressee have embodied, perspectivized views. Past and present conceptual spaces both occupy the physical space of articulation, and so the blends are at once conceptual and perceivable.

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共享的空间，共享的思想：将美国手语叙事中的过去和现在的观点联系起来

摘要在美国手语（ASL）叙述中，签名者将概念化的空间映射到它们周围的实际空间，这些空间可以反映实体之间的物理，概念和隐喻关系。因为动词时态没有在ASL中得到证明，所以出现一个问题：签名者如何区分过去事件中的言语和当前会话上下文中的言语？在叙事中，讲故事者的过去事件话语会推动故事发展。伴随这些内容的通常是针对故事的主观评论，评价性陈述等，目前针对的是对话对象。这项基于使用情况的研究着眼于ASL签名者如何在叙事中整合过去和现在的空间，尤其是整合与每个空间相关联的观点。融合过去和现在的空间，虽然是概念上的概念，在ASL中，话语结构发挥了作用，而且手语表达是在一个三维空间中进行的，签名人和收件人都在该三维空间中体现了具体化的观点。过去和现在的概念空间都占据了关节的物理空间，因此这些融合既是概念上的又是可感知的。