Conceptual Blending and the Windowing of Attention in Simultaneous Constructions in Irish Sign Language

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Simultaneity in Signed Languages. 1
4. Locative Functions of Simultaneous Perspective Constructions in German Sign Language Narratives 27
5. Conceptual Blending and the Windowing of Attention in Simultaneous Constructions in Irish Sign Language 55
6. A Cognitive Linguistic View of Simultaneity in Process Signs in French Sign Language 73
7. Simultaneity in French Sign Language Discourse 103
8. Simultaneous Constructions in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) 127
9. Mouthings and Simultaneity in British Sign Language 147
10. The Non-Dominant Hand in a Swedish Sign Language Discourse 163
11. A Crosslinguistic Comparison of Buoys. Evidence from American, Norwegian, and Swedish Sign Language 187
12. Point Buoys 217
13. Simultaneous Use of the Two Hands in Jordanian Sign Language 237
14. Sign + Gesture = Speech + Gesture? 257
15. Acquisition of Simultaneous Constructions by Deaf Children of Hong Kong Sign Language 283
16. Simultaneity in Atypical Signers 317
17. Perspectives on Linearity and Simultaneity 337
18. Index of Names 345
19. Index of Languages 349
20. Index of Terms 351