The Meaning of Space in Sign Language - Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse

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 provides insight into the study of meaning in the visual-spatial modality and into our understanding of the discourse behavior of spatial locations.

About the author

Gemma Barberà Altimira, CNRS, France

Product details

• Authors: Gemma Altimira, Gemma Barber Altimira, Gemma Barbera Altimira, Gemma Barberà Altimira
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2015
• EAN: 9781614518662
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-866-2
• No. of pages: 271
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 17 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities; Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]; Sign Languages and Deaf Commun; Sign Languages and Deaf Communities; Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures