Sign Language: An International Handbook

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Sign Language

An International Handbook

Edited by: Roland Pfau , Markus Steinbach and Bencie Woll

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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Volume 37 | Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

About this book

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.

the first encyclopaedic reference book in the field of sign language research
over 40 chapters covering all aspects of the linguistic study of sign languages
extensively illustrated with examples from over 30 sign languages

Author / Editor information

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

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	vii
Notational conventions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
Sign language acronyms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xi
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. Phonetics, phonology, and prosody
2. Phonetics Onno Crasborn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	4
3. Phonology Diane Brentari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
4. Visual prosody Wendy Sandler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
II. Morphology
5. Word classes and word formation Irit Meir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
6. Plurality Markus Steinbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	112
7. Verb agreement Gaurav Mathur and Christian Rathmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
8. Classifiers Inge Zwitserlood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
9. Tense, aspect, and modality Roland Pfau, Markus Steinbach and Bencie Woll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	186
10. Agreement auxiliaries Galini Sapountzaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	204
11. Pronouns Kearsy Cormier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
III. Syntax
12. Word order Lorraine Leeson and John Saeed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
13. The noun phrase Carol Neidle and Joan Nash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
14. Sentence types Carlo Cecchetto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	292
15. Negation Josep Quer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
16. Coordination and subordination Gladys Tang and Prudence Lau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	340
17. Utterance reports and constructed action Diane Lillo-Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
IV. Semantics and pragmatics
18. Iconicity and metaphor Sarah F. Taub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	388
19. Use of sign space Pamela Perniss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	412
20. Lexical semantics: Semantic fields and lexical aspect Donovan Grose Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	432
21. Information structure Ronnie B. Wilbur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	462
22. Communicative interaction Anne Baker and Beppie van den Bogaerde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489
V. Communication in the visual modality
23. Manual communication systems: evolution and variation Roland Pfau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	513
24. Shared sign languages Victoria Nyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	552
25. Language and modality Richard P. Meier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	574
26. Homesign: gesture to language Susan Goldin-Meadow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	601
27. Gesture Aslı Özyürek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	626
VI. Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
28. Acquisition Deborah Chen Pichler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	647
29. Processing Matthew W.G. Dye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	687
30. Production Annette Hohenberger and Helen Leuninger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	711
31. Neurolinguistics David Corina and Nicole Spotswood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	739
32. Atypical signing Bencie Woll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	762
VII. Variation and change
33. Sociolinguistic aspects of variation and change Adam Schembri and Trevor Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	788
34. Lexicalization and grammaticalization Terry Janzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	816
35. Language contact and borrowing Robert Adam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	841
36. Language emergence and creolisation Dany Adone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	862
37. Language planning Trude Schermer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	889
VIII. Applied issues
38. History of sign languages and sign language linguistics Susan McBurney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	909
39. Deaf education and bilingualism Carolina Plaza Pust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	949
40. Interpreting Christopher Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	980
41. Poetry Rachel Sutton-Spence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	998
IX. Handling sign language data
42. Data collection Mieke Van Herreweghe and Myriam Vermeerbergen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1023
43. Transcription Nancy Frishberg, Nini Hoiting and Dan I. Slobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1045
44. Computer modelling Eva Sáfár and John Glauert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1075
Indexes
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1103
Index of sign languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1120
Index of spoken languages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1125

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

August 31, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110261325

Hardcover published on:

August 17, 2012

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110204216

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

12

Main content:

1126

Illustrations:

205

Tables:

19

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261325

eBook ISBN: 9783110261325

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110204216

Keywords for this book

Sign Language; Language Typology; Grammar; Psycholinguistics; Neurolinguistics; Sociolinguistics

Audience(s) for this book

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

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