Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics : A Metafunctional Approach / Luke Rudge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudge, Luke, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in systemic functional linguistics

Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British Sign Language.

Functionalism (Linguistics).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"One of many natural sign languages in use around the world, through the simultaneous use of embodied articulators British Sign Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the visual-spatial modality. Filling a gap in current research in the field of sign language linguistic, this book investigates visual-spatial communications from a functional perspective. Presenting a description and analysis of BSL from the perspective of Hallidayean Systemic Functional Linguistics, Luke Rudge explores how BSL users make meaning from three different yet interrelated perspectives: How exchanges of information are managed at a social level (the interpersonal metafunction); How experience is encoded in the language (the experiential metafunction); How communications are organised into coherent parts and wholes (the textual metafunction). Examining these perspectives both separately and in unison, Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics places them within the context of current observations in sign linguistics, providing a complementary viewpoint on how visual-spatial communications may be understood as social semiosis."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. An Introduction to British Sign Language

2. Combining Systemic Functional Linguistics and British Sign Language

3. Exchange and Negotiation

4. Construing Experience

5. Ordering Communication

6. The Simultaneity of Meaning

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350148970

9781350148963

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.