33.3693, Books: Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics: Rudge

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From: Lian Wilson [Lian.Wilson at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics: Rudge


Title: Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional
Linguistics
Subtitle: A Metafunctional Approach
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Publication Year: 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International
Publishing Group)
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/exploring-british-sign-language-v
ia-systemic-functional-linguistics-9781350148949/

Author: Luke A. Rudge
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350148949 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9781350148956 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 85.50
Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN: 9781350148963 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 85.50
Comment: ePub
Abstract:

One of many natural sign languages in use around the world, British
Sign Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the
visual-spatial modality, through the simultaneous use of embodied
articulators. Filling a gap in current research, this book
investigates visual-spatial communications from a functional
perspective.
Presenting a description and analysis of BSL from the perspective of
Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, Luke A. Rudge explores how
BSL users make meaning from three different yet interrelated
perspectives:
- How exchanges of information are managed at a social level (the
interpersonal metafunction)
- How experience is encoded in the language (the experiential
metafunction)
- How communications are organised into coherent parts and wholes (the
textual metafunction)
Examining these perspectives both separately and together, "Exploring
British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics" places them
within the context of current observations in sign linguistics,
providing a complementary viewpoint on how visual-spatial
communications may be understood as social semiosis.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): British Sign Language (bfi)

Written In: English (eng)

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