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Record Nr.

UNINA9910350200903321

Titolo

Sign language : an international handbook / / edited by Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach, Bencie Woll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012

ISBN

1-283-62754-X

3-11-026132-4

9786613939999

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1140 p.)

Collana

Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft = Handbooks of linguistics and communication science = Manuels de linguistique et des sciences de communication, , 1861-5090 ; ; Bd. 37

Altri autori (Persone)

PfauRoland

SteinbachMarkus

WollB (Bencie)

Disciplina

419

Soggetti

Sign language

Linguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Notational conventions -- Sign language acronyms -- 1. Introduction -- I. Phonetics, phonology, and prosody -- 2. Phonetics / Crasborn, Onno -- 3. Phonology / Brentari, Diane -- 4. Visual prosody / Sandler, Wendy -- II. Morphology -- 5. Word classes and word formation / Meir, Irit -- 6. Plurality / Steinbach, Markus -- 7. Verb agreement / Mathur, Gaurav / Rathmann, Christian -- 8. Classifiers / Zwitserlood, Inge -- 9. Tense, aspect, and modality / Pfau, Roland / Steinbach, Markus / Woll, Bencie -- 10. Agreement auxiliaries / Sapountzaki, Galini -- 11. Pronouns / Cormier, Kearsy -- III. Syntax -- 12. Word order / Leeson, Lorraine / Saeed, John -- 13. The noun phrase / Neidle, Carol / Nash, Joan -- 14. Sentence types / Cecchetto, Carlo -- 15. Negation / Quer, Josep -- 16. Coordination and subordination / Tang, Gladys / Lau, Prudence -- 17. Utterance reports and constructed action / Lillo-Martin, Diane -- IV. Semantics and pragmatics -- 18. Iconicity and metaphor / Taub, Sarah F. -- 19. Use



of sign space / Perniss, Pamela -- 20. Lexical semantics: Semantic fields and lexical aspect / Grose, Donovan -- 21. Information structure / Wilbur, Ronnie B. -- 22. Communicative interaction / Baker, Anne / Bogaerde, Beppie van den -- V. Communication in the visual modality -- 23. Manual communication systems: evolution and variation / Pfau, Roland -- 24. Shared sign languages / Nyst, Victoria -- 25. Language and modality / Meier, Richard P. -- 26. Homesign: gesture to language / Goldin-Meadow, Susan -- 27. Gesture / Özyürek, Aslı -- VI. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics -- 28. Acquisition / Pichler, Deborah Chen -- 29. Processing / Dye, Matthew W.G. -- 30. Production / Hohenberger, Annette / Leuninger, Helen -- 31. Neurolinguistics / Corina, David / Spotswood, Nicole -- 32. Atypical signing / Woll, Bencie -- VII. Variation and change -- 33. Sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change / Schembri, Adam / Johnston, Trevor -- 34. Lexicalization and grammaticalization / Janzen, Terry -- 35. Language contact and borrowing / Adam, Robert -- 36. Language emergence and creolisation / Adone, Dany -- 37. Language planning / Schermer, Trude -- VIII. Applied issues -- 38. History of sign languages and sign language linguistics / McBurney, Susan -- 39. Deaf education and bilingualism / Pust, Carolina Plaza -- 40. Interpreting / Stone, Christopher -- 41. Poetry / Sutton-Spence, Rachel -- IX. Handling sign language data -- 42. Data collection / Van Herreweghe, Mieke / Vermeerbergen, Myriam -- 43. Transcription / Frishberg, Nancy / Hoiting, Nini / Slobin, Dan I. -- 44. Computer modelling / Sáfár, Eva / Glauert, John -- Indexes -- Index of subjects -- Index of sign languages -- Index of spoken languages

Sommario/riassunto

Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages. Conversely, questions that sign language linguists consider - even if spoken language researchers have not asked them yet - should also be asked of spoken languages. The HSK handbook Sign Language aims to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sign language linguistics. It includes 44 chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, that address issues in language typology, sign language grammar, psycholingui