Book announcement: Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research

[Engin Arik]

Dear List Members,

I would like to announce that we just published a book, *Current Directions
in Turkish Sign Language Research* (CSP, 2013). The book is one of the very
first books, entirely devoted to current research on Turkish Sign Language
(TID). It contains articles on the history of deaf education in Turkey,
language documentation, a phonological study of fingerspelling,
reciprocals, interrogatives, reported utterances, expressions of spatial
relations including their acquisitions, and expressions of multiple
entities. The book is available worldwide.

I am adding information about the book, links, and TOC. Thank you for your
interest.


Information about the book from the publisher:

"This book aims to contribute to our knowledge of Turkish Sign Language
(TİD), and sign language linguistics in general. TİD is a relatively old
signed language, and is, at present, believed to be historically unrelated
to other signed languages. Linguistic studies on this language started in
the early 2000s. There has been growing academic interest and an increasing
body of work on TİD within the past decade, enhancing the need for this
this book, which brings together chapters covering a variety of topics,
such as the history of deaf education and TİD, issues regarding language
documentation, a phonological study of fingerspelling, reciprocals,
interrogatives, reported utterances, expressions of spatial relations
including their acquisitions, and expressions of multiple entities. This
book was supported in part by the TÜBİTAK Research Fund, Project No.
111K314. This edited volume serves as a useful resource for newcomers to
the field, gives new momentum to future research on TİD, and offers unique
perspectives in investigating sign languages in general. Finally, the
intention is that the conversations within this volume will open up new
discussions not only within sign linguistics, but also in other related
fields such as cognitive science.


Engin Arik received his PhD in 2009 from Purdue University is a
psycholinguist interested in the relationship between language and
cognition in signed and spoken languages. He is Assistant Professor of
Psychology at Dogus University, Istanbul. He is the author of the book A
Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space: Sign and Spoken Languages."


Links:

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Current-Directions-in-Turkish-Sign-Language-Research1-4438-4955-3.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Current-Directions-Turkish-Language-Research/dp/1443849553


*Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research*

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Table of Contents


List of Figures............................................................................
vii



List of Tables..............................................................................
xi



Abbreviations............................................................................
xiii



Contributors.............................................................................
xvii



Chapter One.................................................................................
1

Introduction: Previous and Current Research on Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Engin Arık



Chapter Two..............................................................................
19

Communicative Practices of Deaf People in Turkey
and the Sociolinguistics of Turkish Sign Language

Deniz İlkbaşaran



Chapter Three.............................................................................
55

Documenting Turkish Sign Language (TİD):
A Report on a Research Project

A. Sumru Özsoy, Engin Arık, Aslı Göksel, Meltem Kelepir
and Derya Nuhbalaoğlu



Chapter Four..............................................................................
71

Hand Reversal and Assimilation in TİD Lexicalized Fingerspelling

Süleyman S. Taşçı



Chapter Five.............................................................................
101

The Phonology and Phonetics of Reciprocals in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Okan Kubus and Annette Hohenberger



Chapter Six..............................................................................
143

Interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language (TİD): The Role of Eyebrows

Bahtiyar Makaroğlu



Chapter Seven...........................................................................
167

Wh-movement in Turkish Sign Language

Selçuk İşsever and Bahtiyar Makaroğlu



Chapter Eight...........................................................................
191

Aspects of Reported Utterances in Turkish Sign Language

Meltem Kelepir and Aslı Göksel



Chapter Nine............................................................................
219

Expressions of Space in Turkish Sign Language

Engin Arık



Chapter Ten.............................................................................
243

Acquisition of Locative Expressions in Children Learning Turkish Sign
Language (TİD) and Turkish

Beyza Sümer, Inge Zwitserlood, Pamela Perniss and Aslı Özyürek



Chapter Eleven..........................................................................
273

Expression of Multiple Entities in Turkish Sign Language (TİD)

Inge Zwitserlood, Pamela Perniss and Aslı Özyürek



Subject Index............................................................................
303





-- 
Engin Arik, Ph.D.

www.enginarik.com
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