Sarah F. Taub

Language from the Body

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited its influence while cognitivist and functionalist linguists believe that meaning pervades and motivates all levels of linguistic structure. This dispute can now be resolved conclusively by evidence from signed language. Language from the Body rebuts the generativist linguistic theories that separate form and meaning and asserts that iconicity can only be described in a cognitivist framework where meaning can influence form.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780521770620
• ISBN-10: 0521770629
• Artikelnr.: 21051340

Inhaltsangabe

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.