37.1484, Books: Beyond Grammar and the Lexicon: Liddell (2026)

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Date: 20-Apr-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Beyond Grammar and the Lexicon: Liddell (2026)


Title: Beyond Grammar and the Lexicon
Subtitle: Indicating and Depicting in Sign Language Discourse
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sign-language/beyond-grammar-and-lexicon-indicating-and-depicting-sign-language-discourse?format=HB&isbn=9781009646710

Author(s): Scott K. Liddell

Hardback ISBN:  9781009646710 Pages:  274 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009646710 Pages:  274 Price: Europe EURO 122.55
Hardback ISBN:  9781009646710 Pages:  274 Price: U.S. $ 140.00

Abstract:

Indicating and depicting are widely understood to be fundamental,
meaningful components of everyday spoken language discourse: a
speaker's arms and hands are free to indicate and depict because they
do not articulate words. In contrast, a signer's arms and hands do
articulate signs. For this reason, linguists studying sign languages
have overwhelmingly concluded that signers do not indicate and depict
as a part of signed articulations. This book demonstrates that signers
do, however, indicate - by incorporating non-lexical gestures into
their articulations of individual signs. Fully illustrated throughout,
it also shows that signers create depictions in numerous ways through
conceptualizations, in which the hands, other parts of the body, and
parts of the space ahead of the signer depict things. By establishing
that indicating and depicting are also fundamental, meaningful aspects
of sign language discourse, this book is essential reading for
researchers and students of sign linguistics and gesture studies.

Written In: English (eng)



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