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The Meaning of Space in Sign Language : Reference, Specificity and Structure in Catalan Sign Language Discourse / Gemma Barberà Altimira.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] ; 4Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781614518815
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 419/.46705 23
LOC classification:
  • HV2476.5.S63 .B373 2015eb
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Notational conventions -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Space in sign languages: background -- Chapter 3. A morpheme on spatial planes -- Chapter 4. Spatial locations and discourse referents -- Chapter 5. Deixis and familiarity -- Chapter 6. Specificity -- Chapter 7. Discourse structure and prominence -- Chapter 8. Final remarks -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus data, it provides an exhaustive description of referential devices dependent on space. The book provides insight into the study of meaning in the visual-spatial modality and into our understanding of the discourse behavior of spatial locations.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations -- Notational conventions -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Space in sign languages: background -- Chapter 3. A morpheme on spatial planes -- Chapter 4. Spatial locations and discourse referents -- Chapter 5. Deixis and familiarity -- Chapter 6. Specificity -- Chapter 7. Discourse structure and prominence -- Chapter 8. Final remarks -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus data, it provides an exhaustive description of referential devices dependent on space. The book provides insight into the study of meaning in the visual-spatial modality and into our understanding of the discourse behavior of spatial locations.

Issued also in print.

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