33.3544, Books: Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Volterra, Roccaforte, Di Renzo, Fontana

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Subject: 33.3544, Books: Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Volterra, Roccaforte, Di Renzo, Fontana

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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:12:15
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Volterra, Roccaforte, Di Renzo, Fontana

 


Title: Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic
Perspective 
Subtitle: Implications for a general language theory 
Series Title: Gesture Studies   9  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/gs.9 


Author: Virginia Volterra
Author: Maria Roccaforte
Author: Alessio Di Renzo
Author: Sabina Fontana

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257840 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257840 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027257840 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211002 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211002 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027211002 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a
new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS),
that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens
some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the past and
only recently have been brought to the fore and described. First, the study of
face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy
between linguistic and enacted, to develop a new approach to embodied language
(Kendon, 2004). Second, all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic
and pragmatic meaning, as proposed by cognitive semantics, which considers it
impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic
knowledge. Finally, if speech from the point of view of its materiality is
variable, fragile, and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete),
also signs are not always segmentable into discrete, invariable and
meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties
traditionally associated with human languages in general, notably that of
‘duality of patterning’.These are only some of the main issues you will find
in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages
linguistic research.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Italian Sign Language (ise)


Written In: English  (eng)

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