Sarah F. Taub

Language from the Body

Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Language from the Body deals with iconicity and metaphor in American sign language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780521158602
• ISBN-10: 0521158605
• Artikelnr.: 31891965

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.