Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] – serie
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On Relativization and Clefting
An Analysis of Italian Sign Language
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken …
Matter of Complexity
Subordination in Sign Languages
Av Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1805 kr
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Since natural languages exist in two different modalities – the visual-gestural modality of sign languages and the auditory-oral modality of spoken languages – it is obvious that all fields of research in modern linguistics will benefit from research on sign languages. Although previous studies …
Nominal Modification in Italian Sign Language
Inbunden, 2017
1825 kr
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Since the recent creation of a large-scale corpus of Italian Sign Language (LIS), a new research branch has been established to study the sociolinguistic variation characterizing this language in various linguistic domains. However, for nominal modification, the role of language-internal variation …
Bilingualism and Deafness
On Language Contact in the Bilingual Acquisition of Sign Language and Written Language
Inbunden, 2016
1844 kr
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This book examines sociolinguistic, educational and psycholinguistic factors that shape the path to sign bilingualism in deaf individuals and contributes to a better understanding of the specific characteristics of a type of bilingualism that is neither territorial nor commonly the result of …
Brazilian Sign Language Studies
Inbunden, 2020
2067 kr
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This book brings together a collection of studies on Brazilian Sign Language (Libras). Research on Libras began in earnest 20 years ago, around the time that Libras was recognised as a national language of Brazil in 2002. Over the years, more and more deaf researchers have become sign language …
Information Structure in Sign Languages
Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands
Inbunden, 2019
2125 kr
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This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in …
Sign Language Ideologies in Practice
Av Annelies Kusters, Mara Green m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
257 kr
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This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the …
Sign Language Research, Uses and Practices
Crossing Views on Theoretical and Applied Sign Language Linguistics
Av Laurence Meurant, Aurélie Sinte m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2125 kr
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The uses and practices of sign languages are strongly related to scientific research on sign languages and vice versa. Conversely, sign linguistics cannot be separated from Deaf community practices, including practices in education and interpretation. Therefore, the current volume brings together …
Modal and Focus Particles in Sign Languages
A Cross-Linguistic Study
Inbunden, 2013
2125 kr
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Bringing together the research fields of sign language linguistics and information structure, this book focuses on the realization of modal particles and focus particles in three European sign languages: German Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, and Irish Sign Language. As a …
Mouth Actions in Sign Languages
An Empirical Study of Irish Sign Language
Av Susanne Mohr
Inbunden, 2014
1844 kr
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Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their form and functions remain uncertain. This first empirical analysis of mouth actions in Irish Sign Language focuses on correlations with gender, age, and word class. It contributes …
Meaning of Space in Sign Language
Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse
Inbunden, 2015
1805 kr
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Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus data, it provides an exhaustive description of referential devices dependent on space. The book …
Lexical Nonmanuals in German Sign Language
Empirical Studies and Theoretical Implications
Inbunden, 2020
1794 kr
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The book presents an empirical and theoretical investigation of lexical nonmanuals in German Sign Language including torso, head, and facial expressions. Three empirical studies demonstrate the relevance of nonmanuals for the wellformedness of signs, their meaning, and lexical processing. Moreover, …
Our Lives – Our Stories
Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People
Av Roland Pfau, Asli Göksel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1752 kr
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Sign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have – except for a few scattered fragments in film – not been documented …
Social Condition of Deaf People
The Story of a Woman and a Hearing Society
Inbunden, 2022
1978 kr
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This book is about the social condition of Deaf people, told through a Deaf woman’s autobiography and a series of essays investigating how hearing societies relate to Deaf people.Michel Foucault described the powerful one as the beholder who is not seen. This is why a Deaf woman’s perspective is …
Evaluative Constructions in Italian Sign Language (LIS)
A Multi-Theoretical Analysis
Inbunden, 2023
2096 kr
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The domain of evaluative morphology is vast and complex, as it requires the combination of morphological, semantic and pragmatic information to be understood. Nevertheless, cross-linguistic studies on spoken languages show that languages share some patterns in the way they encode evaluative …
Person and Number
An Empirical Study of Catalan Sign Language Pronouns
Inbunden, 2023
2029 kr
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Person and number are two basic grammatical categories. However, they have not yet been exhaustively documented in many sign languages. This volume presents a thorough description of the form and interpretation of person and number in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal pronouns. This is the first …
Our Lives – Our Stories
Life Experiences of Elderly Deaf People
Av Roland Pfau, Asli Göksel m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
353 kr
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Sign languages are non-written languages. Given that the use of digital media and video recordings in documenting sign languages started only some 30 years ago, the life stories of Deaf elderly signers born in the 1930s-1940s have – except for a few scattered fragments in film – not been documented …
Sign Language Curriculum
Av Maria Mertzani, Felipe Venancio Barbosa
Inbunden, 2028
1751 kr
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Very few countries have an official sign language curriculum for the teaching and learning of signed languages as first/maternal (L1) and/or second (L2) languages. The book discusses its status and visibility of public education policies, consolidating signed languages as a curricular component …
Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition of a HKSL-Cantonese Deaf Child
Av Jieqiong Li
Inbunden, 2027
1962 kr
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This book explores a type of bilingual acquisition – early sequential bimodal bilingual acquisition – in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and oral Cantonese, by adopting data from a deaf child who acquired HKSL from birth and Cantonese from around age 2 after cochlear implantation. One main goal of …
Iconicity and Verb Agreement
A Corpus-Based Syntactic Analysis of German Sign Language
Inbunden, 2021
2403 kr
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In many sign languages around the world, some verbs express grammatical agreement, while many others do not. Curiously, there is a remarkable degree of semantic overlap across sign languages between verbs that do and do not possess agreement properties.This book scrutinizes the interaction between …
