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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- A glimpse of the material
- Motivation and linguistic theory
- Iconicity defined and demonstrated
- The analogue-building model of linguistic iconicity
- Survey of iconicity in signed and spoken languages
- Metaphor in American Sign Language : the double mapping
- Many metaphors in a single sign
- The vertical scale as source domain
- Verb agreement paths in American Sign Language
- Complex superposition of metaphors in an American Sign Language poem
- The future of signed-language research.