Sign Languages (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Brentari, Diane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What are the unique characteristics of sign languages that make them so fascinating? What have recent researchers discovered about them, and what do these findings tell us about human language more generally? This thematic and geographic overview examines more than forty sign languages from around the world. It begins by investigating how sign languages have survived and been transmitted for generations, and then goes on to analyse the common characteristics shared by most sign languages: for example, how the use of the visual system affects grammatical structures. The final section describes the phenomena of language variation and change. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the book explores sign languages both old and young, from British, Italian, Asian and American to Israeli, Al-Sayyid Bedouin, African and Nicaraguan. Written in a clear, readable style, it is the essential reference for students and scholars working in sign language studies and deaf studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511850066
• Artikelnr.: 52843484

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Diane Brentari; Part I. History and Transmission: 2.
Transmission of sign languages in northern Europe Penny Boyes Braem and
Christian Rathmann; 3. Transmission of sign languages in Latin America
Claire Ramsey and David Quinto-Pozos; 4. Transmission of sign languages in
the Nordic countries Brita Bergman and Elisabeth Engberg Pedersen; 5.
Transmission of sign languages in Mediterranean Europe Josep Quer, Galini
Sapountzaki and Laura Mazzoni; 6. Transmission of sign languages in Africa
Dorothy Lule and Lars Wallin; 7. Transmission of Polish sign systems Piotr
Wojda; Part II. Shared Crosslinguistic Characteristics: 8. Notation systems
Harry van der Hulst and Rachel Channon; 9. Verb agreement in sign language
morphology Gaurav Mathur and Christian Rathmann; 10. Functional markers in
sign languages Sandro Zucchi, Carol Neidle, Carlo Geraci, Quinn Duffy and
Carlo Cecchetto; 11. Clause structure Ronice Müller de Quadros and Diane
Lillo-Martin; 12. Factors that form classifier signs Elisabeth
Engberg-Pedersen; 13. Handshape contrasts in sign language phonology Diane
Brentari and Petra Eccarius; 14. Syllable structure in sign language
phonology Tommi Jantunen and Ritva Takkinen; 15. Grammaticalization in sign
languages Sherman Wilcox, Paolo Rossini and Elena Pizzuto; 16. The
semantics-phonology interface Ronnie Wilbur; 17. Nonmanuals: their prosodic
and grammatical roles Roland Pfau and Josep Quer; Part III. Variation and
Change: 18. Sign language varieties in West Africa Victoria Nyst; 19. Sign
languages in the Arab world Kinda Al-Fityani and Carol Padden; 20.
Variation in American sign language Ceil Lucas and Robert Bayley; 21.
Sociolinguistic variation in British, Australian, and New Zealand sign
language Adam Schembri, Kearsy Cormier, Trevor Johnston, David McKee,
Rachel McKee and Bencie Woll; 22. Variation in East Asian sign language
structures Susan Fischer and Qunhu Gong; 23. Crosslinguistic variation in
prosodic cues Gladys Tang, Diane Brentari, Carolina González and Felix Sze;
24. Deixis in an emerging sign language Marie Coppola and Anne Senghas; 25.
The grammar of space in two new sign languages Carol Padden, Irit Meir,
Mark Aronoff and Wendy Sandler.