TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lackner,Andrea
TI  - Functions of Head and Body Movements in Austrian Sign Language
T2  - Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] ,
SN  - 9781501507779
AV  - P117.5.A8 L23 2017
U1  - 419/.436 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton, 
KW  - Austrian Sign Language
KW  - Research
KW  - Gesture
KW  - Austria
KW  - Human body and language
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Sign language
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Nonmanuals
KW  - Sign Language
N1  - Frontmatter --; Dedication --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of figures --; List of tables --; List of abbreviations --; Annotation conventions --; 1. Introduction --; Part I: Research objective, theoretical bases, and methodology --; 2. Head and body movements --; 3. Theoretical bases and methodology --; Part II: Functions associated with head and body movements in ÖGS --; 4. Reference, alternativity, hypotheticality: functions related to space --; 5. Contrast: Negative - positive --; 6. Interrogativity --; 7. Modality --; 8. Conditionality --; Part III: Conclusions on head and body movements in ÖGS --; 9. The role of head and body movements in ÖGS --; APPENDIX A: Corpora --; APPENDIX B: Metadata of the participants from Großarl --; References --; Index; Issued also in print
N2  - Research on nonmanual elements - or 'nonmanuals' - in sign languages has focused on both the possible functions and the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) today, which has also initiated the study given. In order to identify head and body movements in ÖGS, these nonmanuals were determined and analyzed functionally via a new user-oriented methodology. Getting feedback of multiple native signers was a main part of this method. Accordingly, you will find the findings of this study in this volume: various functions such as negation, assertion, interrogativity, conditionality, and many more can be expressed nonmanually. Brand new insights into sign language research are given, as well as astonishing results: even (epistemic) modality can be expressed by particular head and body movements
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507779
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501507779
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