Functions of Head and Body Movements in Austrian Sign Language

Andrea Lackner

book: Functions of Head and Body Movements in Austrian Sign Language

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Functions of Head and Body Movements in Austrian Sign Language

Andrea Lackner

Volume 9 in the series Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507779

Overview
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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Andrea Lackner, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria

Reviews

"This book will be of interest to any sign language, corpus linguistics, or gesture researcher for its comprehensive overview of non-manuals, its novel methodology, and its insights into the nuances of the grammatical function of head and body movements in communication." Benjamin Anible in: Sign Language & Linguistics 22:2, 2019, 298-302

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Dedication Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
List of tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xviii
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Annotation conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
1. Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Research objective, theoretical bases, and methodology
2. Head and body movements Open Access Download PDF	11
3. Theoretical bases and methodology Open Access Download PDF	27
Part II: Functions associated with head and body movements in ÖGS
4. Reference, alternativity, hypotheticality: functions related to space Open Access Download PDF	61
5. Contrast: Negative – positive Open Access Download PDF	107
6. Interrogativity Open Access Download PDF	139
7. Modality Open Access Download PDF	171
8. Conditionality Open Access Download PDF	197
Part III: Conclusions on head and body movements in ÖGS
9. The role of head and body movements in ÖGS Open Access Download PDF	225
APPENDIX A: Corpora Open Access Download PDF	237
APPENDIX B: Metadata of the participants from Großarl Open Access Download PDF	240
References Open Access Download PDF	243
Index Open Access Download PDF	257

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists interested in Sign Language Research
Pages
- Front matter: 24
- Main content: 261
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 80
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Sign Language; Nonmanuals

eBook

Published: December 4, 2017
ISBN: 9781501507779

Hardcover

Published: December 4, 2017
ISBN: 9781501516337