Altimira Gemma Barberà. The Meaning of Space in Sign Language

De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 293 p. — (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities). — ISBN10: 1614518661, ISBN13: 978-1614518662.Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus data, it provides an exhaustive description of referential devices dependent on space. The book provides insight into the study of meaning in the visual-spatial modality and into our understanding of the discourse behavior of spatial locations.