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Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language /
The meaning of any linguistic expression resides not only in the words, but also in the ways that those words are conveyed. In her new study, Miako N. P. Rankin highlights the crucial interrelatedness of form and meaning at all levels in order to consider specific types of American Sign Language (AS...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2013
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| Colección: | Sociolinguistics in deaf communities series ;
v. 19. Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Editorial advisory board
- Acknowledgments
- Editor's note
- Introduction
- Foundational concepts
- Features relevant to defocusing agents in ASL
- Defocused agents in ASL utterances
- ASL structures used to express reduced agent focus
- Agent focus in ASL Texts
- Agent focus in ASL-to-English translation
- Conclusion
- References
- Index.