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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pfau, Roland.

Steinbach, Markus.

Woll, B. (Bencie)

Series:

Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; Bd. 37.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign language.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786613939999

9781283627542

128362754X

9783110261325

3110261324

OCLC:

810310981