Verbal and signed languages. Comparing structures, constructs and methodologies. Empirical approaches to language typology 36.

Pizzuto, Elena, Paola Pietrandrea and Raffaele Simone (Eds.):

ISBN 10: 3110195852 / ISBN 13: 9783110195859

Published by Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2007

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X, 350 S. Einband leicht berieben. - Iconicity and arbitrariness in French Sign Language: Highly iconic structures, degenerated iconicity and diagrammatic iconicity. Christian Cuxac and Marie-Anne Sallandre -- Diagrammatic and imagic hypoicons in signed and verbal languages. Paola Pietrandrea and Tommaso Russo -- Sign language phonology: Issues of iconicity and universality. Diane Brentari -- Linguistic units in signed and verbal languages. Claire Blanche-Benveniste -- Routes from gestures to language. Sherman Wilcox -- Interfaces: the relation between structure and output. Annarita Puglielli and Mara Frascarelli -- The expression of grammatical categories in signed languages. Terry Janzen -- Constructions and categories in verbal and signed languages. Raffaele Simone -- Constructs of the mind: Cross-linguistic contrast of metaphor in spoken and signed languages. Phyllis Perrin Wilcox -- Deixis, anaphora and person reference in signed languages. Elena Pizzuto -- The deep relation between deixis and anaphora. Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri. ISBN 9783110195859 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1630 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Verbal and signed languages. Comparing structures, constructs and methodologies. Empirical approaches to language typology 36.
• Publisher: Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110195852
• ISBN 13: 9783110195859
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 1630 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Linguistik

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Synopsis

This book is the first to explore how much of knowledge based on research on spoken languages needs to be refined in the light of the growing field of sign linguistics. Drawing upon a broad cross-linguistic perspective, the contributors focus on topics of general theoretical interest: linearity and arbitrariness principles, definition of units and levels of analysis, expression of grammatical categories, semantic relations, and cohesion mechanisms. The book is of interest to language typologists, theoretical and descriptive linguists, scholars in the fields of semiotics, anthropology, gesture studies, and cognitive sciences at large.

About the Author

Elena Pizzuto, Paola Pietrandrea andRaffaele Simone, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy.