![]() Depiction is one of these communicative devices often used along with conventional linguistic forms. Speakers often combine different communicative devices-words, gestures, enactments-to produce multi-modal “composite utterances” ( Enfield, 2009). The second utterance may do a better job of evoking a sensory image of the event, allowing one to imagine just how bad the collision was. ![]() Instead of simply describing the event as in (1), the speaker in (2) combines two modes of representations-conventional signs and spontaneous depictions. In (1) the speaker describes the event using only conventional lexical items, and conveys the fact that the collision was violent with the word “crash.” In (2) the speaker describes the event with a less evocative lexical item (“hit”) but adds information about the severity of the collision with vocal onomatopoeia and the vowel elongated, BAAM, accompanied by an imagistic gesture depicting the crash. We discuss linguistic constraints on these gradient depictions, focusing on how handshape constrains the type of depictions that can be formed, and the function of depiction in everyday discourse. Embellished DCs share a number of properties with embedded depictions, constructed action, and constructed dialog in signed and spoken languages. In addition, signers produced iconic mouth movements, which are temporally and semantically integrated with the signs they accompany and depict the size and shape of objects, more often with embellished DCs than with either lexical signs or conventional DCs. Embellished DCs were more frequent in the Depictive Elicitation context than in the Descriptive Elicitation context lexical signs showed the reverse pattern and conventional DCs were equally like in the two contexts. But embellished DCs also capture imagistic aspects of the objects, either by adding a tracing movement to gradiently depict the contours of the object, or by adding a second handshape to depict the configuration of the object. Both conventional and embellished DCs make use of categorical handshapes to identify objects. We found that signers used two types of depicting constructions (DCs), conventional DCs and embellished DCs. We asked signers to describe two objects that could easily be characterized using lexical signs (Descriptive Elicitation), and objects that were more difficult to distinguish using lexical signs, thus encouraging the signers to depict (Depictive Elicitation). Here we apply this paradigm to signers to explore depiction in the manual modality, with a focus on depiction of the size and shape of objects. In previous work, we developed a paradigm to elicit depictions in speakers. When depicting, speakers take on the role of other people and quote their speech or imitate their actions. On the other hand, if your quarry are rock chucks, then you may as well man up and carry the weight.In everyday communication, not only do speakers describe, but they also depict. To me, adding any weight to get below 1 moa doesn't make sense on deer and elk sized game. In the mountains where "light is right, and lighter is righter," I'll take this weight-precision ratio. It will put 5 shots in 1.5 moa every time (100y), and within 1 moa or better with some attention paid to barrel heat. According to my bathroom scale, my Remington mountain rifle (270win) weighs 8.2 lbs with a Leopold 3-9x44 vari Xii scope attached. The savage predator max was already recommended, and I'll add a rec for another factory rifle. However, for a rifle that will be carried over miles and miles of uneven terrain, then shot one time, a light weight rifle with a predictable cold bore shot is all that is required. For a rifle that will be carried to a prairie dog town and then unleashed upon the unwashed over the course of several hours, a heavy weight barrel with very consistent shot to shot performance/precision is generally preferred. A very good day "hunting" prairie dogs generally entails many MANY shots, while a very good season elk hunting generally entails a single shot. What is your intended prey? A gun built for varmints is different from a coyote gun is different from a deer/elk gun.
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