Language From the Body - Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language

Klappentext Language from the Body deals with iconicity and metaphor in American sign language. Zusammenfassung The debate over the role of meaning in linguistic theory can be resolved by evidence from signed languages. Language from the Body rebuts the generativist linguistic theories which separate form and meaning and asserts that iconicity can only be described in a cognitivist framework where meaning can influence form. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A glimpse of the material; 2. Motivation and linguistic theory; 3. Iconicity defined and demonstrated; 4. The analogue-building model of linguistic iconicity; 5. Survey of iconicity in signed and spoken languages; 6. Metaphor in American Sign Language: the double mapping; 7. Many metaphors in a single sign; 8. The vertical scale as source domain; 9. Verb agreement paths in American Sign Language; 10. Complex superposition of metaphors in an American Sign Language poem; 11. The future of signed-language research; Appendices; References; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sarah F. Taub, Sarah F. (Gallaudet University Taub
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521158602
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15860-2
• Seiten: 274
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Social, group or collective psychology, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication