<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dear List Members,</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default">
<font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">I would like to announce that we just published a book, <b>Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research</b> (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,<span style="line-height:17.99715805053711px"> a phonological study of fingerspelling, reciprocals, interrogatives, reported utterances, expressions of spatial relations including their acquisitions, and expressions of multiple entities.</span> The book is available worldwide.</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">I am adding information about the book, links, and TOC. Thank you for your interest. </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Information about the book from the publisher:</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><p style="line-height:18px"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><font color="#000000">"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.</font></span></p>
<p style="line-height:18px"></p><p style="line-height:18px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br>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."</font></p>
<p style="line-height:18px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:18px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Links:</font></p><p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="line-height:17.99715805053711px"><a href="http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Current-Directions-in-Turkish-Sign-Language-Research1-4438-4955-3.htm">http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Current-Directions-in-Turkish-Sign-Language-Research1-4438-4955-3.htm</a></span><br>
</font></p><p><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="line-height:17.99715805053711px"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Current-Directions-Turkish-Language-Research/dp/1443849553">http://www.amazon.com/Current-Directions-Turkish-Language-Research/dp/1443849553</a></span><br>
</font></p><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11.818181991577148px;line-height:17.99715805053711px"><br></span></font></p><p><font color="#000000"><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research</b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11.818181991577148px;line-height:17.99715805053711px"><br>
</span></font></font></p><p><b style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></b></p><p class=""><font color="#000000"><a name="_Toc358895174"></a><a name="_Toc358894990"></a><a name="_Toc358894399"><span style><span style>Table of
Contents</span></span></a></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style>List of Figures<span style>............................................................................ </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style>vii</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>List of Tables<span style>.............................................................................. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style>xi</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Abbreviations<span style>............................................................................ </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style>xiii</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Contributors<span style>............................................................................. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style>xvii</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter One<span style>................................................................................. </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style>1</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Introduction: Previous and Current Research on Turkish
Sign Language (TİD)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Engin Arık</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Two<span style>.............................................................................. </span>19</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Communicative Practices of Deaf People in Turkey<br>
and the Sociolinguistics of Turkish Sign Language</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Deniz İlkbaşaran</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Three<span style>............................................................................. </span>55</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Documenting Turkish Sign Language (TİD):<br>
A Report on a Research Project</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>A. Sumru Özsoy, Engin Arık, Aslı Göksel, Meltem
Kelepir<br>
and Derya Nuhbalaoğlu</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Four<span style>.............................................................................. </span>71</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Hand Reversal and Assimilation in TİD Lexicalized
Fingerspelling</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Süleyman S. Taşçı</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Five<span style>............................................................................. </span>101</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>The Phonology and Phonetics of Reciprocals in Turkish
Sign Language (TİD)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="DE" style>Okan Kubus and Annette
Hohenberger</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><span lang="DE" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="DE" style>Chapter Six<span style>.............................................................................. </span>143</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language
(TİD): The Role of Eyebrows</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Bahtiyar Makaroğlu</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Seven<span style>........................................................................... </span>167</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Wh</span><span lang="EN-GB" style>-movement in Turkish Sign Language</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Selçuk İşsever and Bahtiyar Makaroğlu</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Eight<span style>........................................................................... </span>191</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Aspects of Reported Utterances in Turkish Sign
Language</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Meltem Kelepir and Aslı Göksel</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Nine<span style>............................................................................ </span>219</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Expressions of Space in Turkish Sign Language</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Engin Arık</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Ten<span style>............................................................................. </span>243</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Acquisition of Locative Expressions in Children
Learning Turkish Sign Language (TİD) and Turkish</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Beyza Sümer, Inge Zwitserlood, Pamela Perniss and Aslı
Özyürek</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Chapter Eleven<span style>.......................................................................... </span>273</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Expression of Multiple Entities in Turkish Sign
Language (TİD)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Inge Zwitserlood, Pamela Perniss and Aslı Özyürek</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
<p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="" style><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN-GB" style>Subject Index<span style>............................................................................ </span>303</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></p>
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