Pfau / Steinbach / Woll Sign Language

An International Handbook
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-026132-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 37, 1138 Seiten

Reihe: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages. Conversely, questions that sign language linguists consider - even if spoken language researchers have not asked them yet - should also be asked of spoken languages. The HSK handbook Sign Language aims to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sign language linguistics. It includes 44 chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, that address issues in language typology, sign language grammar, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language documentation and transcription. Crucially, all topics are presented in a way that makes them accessible to linguists who are not familiar with sign language linguistics.

Zielgruppe

Linguists, Sign Language researchers, researchers in Deaf Studies. Reference work for advanced undergraduates and post-graduates. Those in such fields as Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Deaf Studies, education of the deaf, speech and language therapy with deaf children and adults, students of Sign Language, Sign Language interpreters

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pfau, Roland

Steinbach, Markus

Woll, Bencie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Notational conventions;9
3;Sign language acronyms;11
4;1. Introduction;13
5;I. Phonetics, phonology, and prosody;16
5.1;2. Phonetics;16
5.2;3. Phonology;33
5.3;4. Visual prosody;67
6;II. Morphology;89
6.1;5. Word classes and word formation;89
6.2;6. Plurality;124
6.3;7. Verb agreement;148
6.4;8. Classifiers;170
6.5;9. Tense, aspect, and modality;198
6.6;10. Agreement auxiliaries;216
6.7;11. Pronouns;239
7;III. Syntax;257
7.1;12. Word order;257
7.2;13. The noun phrase;277
7.3;14. Sentence types;304
7.4;15. Negation;328
7.5;16. Coordination and subordination;352
7.6;17. Utterance reports and constructed action;377
8;IV. Semantics and pragmatics;400
8.1;18. Iconicity and metaphors;400
8.2;19. Use of sign space;424
8.3;20. Lexical semantics: Semantic fields and lexical aspect;444
8.4;21. Information structure;474
8.5;22. Communicative interaction;501
9;V. Communication in the visual modality;525
9.1;23. Manual communication systems: evolution and variation;525
9.2;24. Shared sign languages;564
9.3;25. Language and modality;586
9.4;26. Homesign: gesture to language;613
9.5;27. Gesture;638
10;VI. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics;659
10.1;28. Acquisition;659
10.2;29. Processing;699
10.3;30. Production;723
10.4;31. Neurolinguistics;751
10.5;32. Atypical signing;774
11;VII. Variation and change;800
11.1;33. Sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change;800
11.2;34. Lexicalization and grammaticalization;828
11.3;35. Language contact and borrowing;853
11.4;36. Language emergence and creolisation;874
11.5;37. Language planning;901
12;VIII. Applied issues;921
12.1;38. History of sign languages and sign language linguistics;921
12.2;39. Deaf education and bilingualism;961
12.3;40. Interpreting;992
12.4;41. Poetry;1010
13;IX. Handling sign language data;1035
13.1;42. Data collection;1035
13.2;43. Transcription;1057
13.3;44. Computer modelling;1087
14;Indexes;1115
14.1;Index of subjects;1115
14.2;Index of sign languages;1132
14.3;Index of spoken languages;1137

Über Autor(innen)

Woll, Bencie
Bencie Woll, University College London, Great Britain.

Steinbach, Markus
Markus Steinbach, University of Goettingen, Germany.

Pfau, Roland
Roland Pfau, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Roland Pfau, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Markus Steinbach, University of Göttingen, Germany; Bencie Woll, University College London, Great Britain.