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Author | : William C. Stokoe |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027920966 |
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Author | : William C. Stokoe (Jr) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Virginia Volterra |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2022-09-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027257841 |
Download Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the past and only recently have been brought to the fore and described. First, the study of face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy between linguistic and enacted, to develop a new approach to embodied language (Kendon, 2004). Second, all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic and pragmatic meaning, as proposed by cognitive semantics, which considers it impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge. Finally, if speech from the point of view of its materiality is variable, fragile, and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete), also signs are not always segmentable into discrete, invariable and meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties traditionally associated with human languages in general, notably that of ‘duality of patterning’. These are only some of the main issues you will find in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages linguistic research.
Author | : Naomi S. Baron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download Speech, Writing, and Sign Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : D.C. Lillo-Martin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401134685 |
Download Universal Grammar and American Sign Language Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE American Sign Language (ASL) is the visual-gestural language used by most of the deaf community in the United States and parts of Canada. On the surface, this language (as all signed languages) seems radically different from the spoken languages which have been used to formulate theories of linguistic princi ples and parameters. However, the position taken in this book is that when the surface effects of modality are stripped away, ASL will be seen to follow many of the patterns proposed as universals for human language. If these theoretical constructs are meant to hold for language in general, then they should hold for natural human language in any modality; and ifASL is such a natural human language, then it too must be accounted for by any adequate theory of Universal Grammar. For this rea son, the study of ASL can be vital for proposed theories of Universal Grammar. Recent work in several theoretical frameworks of syntax as well as phonology have argued that indeed, ASL is such a lan guage. I will assume then, that principles of Universal Gram mar, and principles that derive from it, are applicable to ASL, and in fact that ASL can serve as one of the languages which test Universal Grammar. There is an important distinction to be drawn, however, be tween what is called here 'American Sign Language', and other forms of manual communication.
Author | : Rachel Channon |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1614510687 |
Download Formational Units in Sign Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are many similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. The articulators are more visible and use larger muscles with consequent greater effort. It is difficult to visually attend to both a sign and an object at the same time. Iconicity is more systematic and more available in signs. The body, especially the face, plays a much larger role in sign. Sign languages are more frequently born anew as small groups of deaf people come together in villages or schools. Sign languages often borrow from the written form of the surrounding spoken language, producing fingerspelling alphabets, character signs, and related signs. This book examines the effects of these and other differences using observation, experimentation and theory. The languages examined include Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American sign languages, and language situations include home signers and small village signers, children, gesturers, adult signers, and non-native signers.
Author | : Bernard Th. M. Tervoort |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Sign language |
ISBN | : |
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Review of William C. Stokoe, Semiotics and human sign languages.
Author | : Roy Harris |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Communication |
ISBN | : 9780415100892 |
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Harris proposes a new theory of communication, beginning with the premise that the mental life of an individual should be conceived of as a continuous attempt to integrate the present with the past and future.
Author | : Thomas Albert Sebeok |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Semiotics |
ISBN | : 9780253206541 |
Download Semiotics in the United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"As a glimpse onto U.S. American semiotics through the mind's eye of a witness, participant-observer, architect, and midwife, this slim but rich book fulfills its title." --Journal of Linguistic Anthropology "This book is an invaluable historical, conceptual, and anecdotal account of the rise of semiotics in the United States." --Review of Metaphysics Sebeok, who has done more to establish the field of semiotics in the United States than any other single scholar, here draws upon his personal experiences of half a century to present the achievement and current status of semiotics in this country. He focuses on salient individuals and intellectual issues, including theatre, television, folklore, sociology, tourism, and graphic design. He also examines semiotic applications to architecture, marketing and advertising, jurisprudence, and medicine.
Author | : D. Gerver |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1461590779 |
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Language Interpretation and Communication: a NATO Symposium, was a multi-disciplinary meeting held from September 26 to October 1st 1977 at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Isle of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The Symposium explored both applied and theoretical aspects of conference interpre tation and of sign language interpretation. The Symposium was sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and we would like to express our thanks to Dr. B. A. Bayrakter of the Scientific Affairs Division and to the Members of the NATO Special Programme Panel on Human Factors for their support. We would also like to thank Dr. F. Benvenutti and his colleagues at the University of Venice for their generous provision of facilities and hospitality for the opening session of the Symposium. Our thanks are also due to Dr. Ernesto Talentino and his colleagues at the Giorgio Cini Foundation who provided such excellent conference facilities and thus helped ensure the success of the meeting. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation and thanks to Becky Graham and Carol Blair for their invaluable contributions to the organization of the Symposium, to Ida Stevenson who prepared these proceedings for publication, and to Donald I. MacLeod who assisted with the final preparation of the manuscript.