22.4143, Books: Ling Theories/Phonetics/Phonology: van der Hulst, Channon (Eds)

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Date: 20-Oct-2011
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Formational Units in Sign Languages: van der Hulst, Channon (Eds)

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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:42:23
From: Julia Ulrich [julia.ulrich at degruyter.com]
Subject: Formational Units in Sign Languages: van der Hulst, Channon (Eds)

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Title: Formational Units in Sign Languages 
Series Title: Sign Language Typology 3  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9781614510673-1 

Editor: Rachel Elizabeth Channon
Editor: Harry van der Hulst

Electronic: ISBN:  9781614510680 Pages: 346 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781614510673 Pages: 346 Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to 
communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are many 
similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused primarily by the 
reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some 
important social differences. The articulators are more visible and use larger 
muscles with consequent greater effort. It is difficult to visually attend to both 
a sign and an object at the same time. Iconicity is more systematic and more 
available in signs. The body, especially the face, plays a much larger role in 
sign. Sign languages are more frequently born anew as small groups of deaf 
people come together in villages or schools. Sign languages often borrow 
from the written form of the surrounding spoken language, producing 
fingerspelling alphabets, character signs, and related signs. This book 
examines the effects of these and other differences using observation, 
experimentation and theory. The languages examined include Asian, Middle 
Eastern, European and American sign languages, and language situations 
include home signers and small village signers, children, gesturers, adult 
signers, and non-native signers. 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Typology
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Written In: English  (eng)

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