18.1687, Diss: Pragmatics: Wrobel: 'Space as a Communicative Resource'

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Date: 22-May-2007
From: Ulrike Wrobel < ulrike.wrobel at uni-bielefeld.de >
Subject: Space as a Communicative Resource

 

	
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Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:52:24
From: Ulrike Wrobel < ulrike.wrobel at uni-bielefeld.de >
Subject: Space as a Communicative Resource 
 


Institution: University of Munich 
Program: Department of Comparitive and Indo-Europoean Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2007 

Author: Ulrike Wrobel

Dissertation Title: Space as a Communicative Resource 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): German Sign Language (gsg)

Language Family(ies): Deaf Sign Language


Dissertation Director(s):
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Konrad Ehlich
Prof. Dr. Gerd Kegel
Prof. Dr. Angelika Redder

Dissertation Abstract:

This book provides a critical survey on the linguistic use and
applicability of common spoken language concepts to natural Sign Languages.
Notions like phoneme, syllable, morpheme, movement, verb etc. are discussed
and reviewed according to the fact that space does not merely govern the
grammar of Sign Languages, but displays a communicative function in visual
languages: it is shown that space is a communicative resource to Sign
Languages. Therefore, it is pointed out how a functional and pragmatic
approach to the analysis of visual languages is able to show the merit
obtainable by the use of space. 





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