33.3891, Books: The role of iconicity and simultaneity in efficient communication in the visual modality: Slonimska

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Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:26:50
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: The role of iconicity and simultaneity in efficient communication in the visual modality: Slonimska

 


Title: The role of iconicity and simultaneity in efficient communication
in the visual modality 
Subtitle: Evidence from ILS (Italian Sign Language) 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-role-of-iconicity-and-simultaneity-in-efficient-communication-in-the-visual-modality 


Author: Anita Slonimska

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934131 Pages: 247 Price: Europe EURO 33


Abstract:

Language is not restricted to speech only, but can be also expressed and
perceived through the visual modality, as is the case in sign languages, the
natural languages of deaf communities. The visual modality can give rise to
modality-specific structures. For example, sign languages, unlike speech, can
express multiple semantic elements through the use of iconicity, i.e.,
motivated form-meaning mappings, and simultaneity, i.e., multiple body
articulators (hands, torso, head, facial expression and eye gaze) at the same
time. However, the role such properties play in communicative efficiency—a
fundamental feature that is known to shape language structure—has not been
systematically explored in sign languages.

This thesis investigates whether and how iconicity and simultaneity are
recruited for communicative efficiency in LIS (Italian Sign Language) and
whether they evolve in a linguistic system to be optimized for this function.
This inquiry is addressed by means of 3 experimental studies, each tackling
different but complementary perspectives regarding the role of iconicity and
simultaneity in: information organization, linguistic encoding strategies and
language evolution. By bringing together the research fields of sign
languages, communicative efficiency and language evolution, this thesis shows
how linguistic structure in LIS adapts to fit communicative efficiency
pressures and highlights the role that linguistic modality plays in how it is
achieved.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Italian Sign Language (ise)


Written In: English  (eng)

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