Formational Units in Sign Languages
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Edited by:
Rachel Channon
About this book
Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are many similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. The articulators are more visible and use larger muscles with consequent greater effort. It is difficult to visually attend to both a sign and an object at the same time. Iconicity is more systematic and more available in signs. The body, especially the face, plays a much larger role in sign. Sign languages are more frequently born anew as small groups of deaf people come together in villages or schools. Sign languages often borrow from the written form of the surrounding spoken language, producing fingerspelling alphabets, character signs, and related signs. This book examines the effects of these and other differences using observation, experimentation and theory. The languages examined include Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American sign languages, and language situations include home signers and small village signers, children, gesturers, adult signers, and non-native signers.
Author / Editor information
Rachel Channon and Harry van der Hulst, University of Connecticut, USA.
Reviews
"This volume will no doubt stimulate further discussion and investigation that will carry the field into the future."
Leah C. Gear in: Sign Language & Linguistics 15:2/2012
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Part I. Observation
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Susan Fischer and Qunhu Gong Open Access Download PDF |
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Okan Kubus and Annette Hohenberger Open Access Download PDF |
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Ginger Pizer, Richard P. Meier and Kathleen Shaw Points Open Access Download PDF |
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Robert Adam, Eleni Orfanidou, James M. McQueen and Gary Morgan Open Access Download PDF |
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Jean Ann, James Myers, Jane Tsay and Suny Oswego Open Access Download PDF |
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Diane Brentari and Petra Eccarius Open Access Download PDF |
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Carina Rebello Cruz and Regina Ritter Lamprecht Open Access Download PDF |
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Assaf Israel and Wendy Sandler Open Access Download PDF |
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Kathryn L. Hansen Open Access Download PDF |
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Joe Mak and Gladys Tang Open Access Download PDF |
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