Language from the body iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language
What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited the influence of meaning, claiming that language is not affected by other cognitive processes and that semantics does not influence linguistic form. Conversely, cognitivist and functionalist linguists believ...
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Cambridge, UK New York :
Cambridge University Press
2001.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797968906719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE A Glimpse of the Material; CHAPTER TWO Motivation and Linguistic Theory; CHAPTER THREE Iconicity Defined and Demonstrated; CHAPTER FOUR The Analogue-Building Model of Linguistic Iconicity; CHAPTER FIVE Survey of Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Languages; CHAPTER SIX Metaphor in American Sign Language: The Double Mapping; CHAPTER SEVEN Many Metaphors in a Single Sign; CHAPTER EIGHT The Vertical Scale as Source Domain; CHAPTER NINE Verb Agreement Paths in American Sign Language
- CHAPTER TEN Complex Superposition of Metaphors in an American Sign Language PoemCHAPTER ELEVEN The Future of Signed-Language Research; APPENDIX ONE Glossing Conventions; APPENDIX TWO Translation of The TreasureŽ; References; Index
