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Information Structure in Sign Languages : Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands /
This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Sign Languages and Deaf Communities [SLDC] ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Glossing conventions
- List of sign languages and their abbreviations
- Part I: Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Puzzles of information structure
- 3. Methodological issues
- Part II: Topics
- 4. Topics in sign languages
- 5. Quantitative analysis of topics in RSL and NGT
- 6. Topic prominence
- 7. Discourse topics and modality effects
- Part III: Focus
- 8. Focus in sign languages
- 9. A quantitative study of focus in RSL and NGT
- 10. Contrast
- 11. Doubling
- 12. A corpus study of question-answer pairs in NGT
- Part IV: Conclusions
- 13. Sign languages and typology of information structure
- Appendix 1. Stimuli for the study of focus in RSL and NGT
- Appendix 2. Testing reliability of coding for manual prosodic markers
- References
- Subject Index
- Notes