33.3693, Books: Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics: Rudge

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Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 18:38:26
From: Lian Wilson [Lian.Wilson at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics: Rudge

 


Title: Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional
Linguistics 
Subtitle: A Metafunctional Approach 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/exploring-british-sign-language-via-systemic-functional-linguistics-9781350148949/ 


Author: Luke A. Rudge

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350148956 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: PDF
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350148963 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 85.50 Comment: ePub
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350148949 Pages: 184 Price: U.K. £ 95.00


Abstract:

One of many natural sign languages in use around the world, British Sign
Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the
visual-spatial modality, through the simultaneous use of embodied
articulators. Filling a gap in current research, this book investigates
visual-spatial communications from a functional perspective.
Presenting a description and analysis of BSL from the perspective of
Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, Luke A. Rudge explores how BSL
users make meaning from three different yet interrelated perspectives:
- How exchanges of information are managed at a social level (the
interpersonal metafunction)
- How experience is encoded in the language (the experiential metafunction)
- How communications are organised into coherent parts and wholes (the textual
metafunction)
Examining these perspectives both separately and together, "Exploring British
Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics" places them within the
context of current observations in sign linguistics, providing a complementary
viewpoint on how visual-spatial communications may be understood as social
semiosis.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): British Sign Language (bfi)


Written In: English  (eng)

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