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Functions of Head and Body Movements in Austrian Sign Language.

Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably. Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference grammars, theoretical linguistics, psycho- and neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and applied studies on sign languages an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lackner, Andrea
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter, 2017.
Colección:Sign Languages and Deaf Communities SLDC.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Annotation conventions
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Research objective, theoretical bases, and methodology
  • 2. Head and body movements
  • 3. Theoretical bases and methodology
  • Part II: Functions associated with head and body movements in ÖGS
  • 4. Reference, alternativity, hypotheticality: functions related to space
  • 5. Contrast: Negative
  • positive
  • 6. Interrogativity
  • 7. Modality
  • 8. Conditionality
  • Part III: Conclusions on head and body movements in ÖGS
  • 9. The role of head and body movements in ÖGS
  • APPENDIX A: Corpora
  • APPENDIX B: Metadata of the participants from Großarl
  • References
  • Index.