De Gruyter Mouton, 2007. — 413 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 188). It has been argued that properties of the visual-gestural modality impose a homogenizing effect on sign languages, leading to less structural variation in sign language structure as compared to spoken language structure. However, until recently, research on sign languages was...
Helmut Buske, 200520. — 381 S. — (Linguistische Berichte 13). DGS-Grammatik D. Happ: Manuelle und nicht manuelle Module der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (DGS): Linguistische Aspekte Phonologie S. Prillwitz: Das Sprachinstrument von Gebärdensprachen und die phonologische Umsetzung für die Handformkomponente der DGS W. Sandler: Prosodic Constituency and Intonation in a Sign Language...
London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1968. — 192 p. — ISBN 978-0340059845. "This is the first modern hardback book that has been written on the Sign Language as used in this country. It contains over 150 signs which are in use by deaf and dumb people, and also detailed information on the two-handed Manual Alphabet. "Any person who has both hearing and speech, and who wishes to...
Springer, 2024. — 171 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-68762-4. Обработка языка жестов: от жестов к значению In a world where communication is key to human connection, understanding, and learning from one another, the book investigates the rich and intricate world of sign languages, highlighting the fascinating complexities of visual-spatial languages and their unique role in bridging the...
Springer, 2024. — 171 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-68762-4. Обработка языка жестов: от жестов к значению In a world where communication is key to human connection, understanding, and learning from one another, the book investigates the rich and intricate world of sign languages, highlighting the fascinating complexities of visual-spatial languages and their unique role in bridging the...
Walter de Gruyter, 2014. — 364 p. — (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities 5). This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages...
Edizioni Ca'Foscari, 2022. — 912 p. — (Lingue dei segni e sordità 2). La Grammatica della lingua dei segni italiana (LIS) (A Grammar of Italian Sign Language (LIS)) è un’ampia presentazione delle proprietà grammaticali della LIS. È stata pensata come uno strumento per studenti, insegnanti, interpreti, la Comunità Sorda, ricercatori, linguisti e chiunque sia interessato allo...
Edizioni Ca'Foscari, 2020. — 831 p. — (Lingue dei segni e sordità 1). A Grammar of Italian Sign Language (LIS) is a comprehensive presentation of the grammatical properties of LIS. It has been conceived as a tool for students, teachers, interpreters, the Deaf community, researchers, linguists and whoever is interested in the study of LIS. It is one output of the Horizon 2020...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2011. — 352 p. — (Sign Language Typology 3). Sign languages and spoken languages have an equal capacity to communicate our thoughts. Beyond this, however, while there are many similarities, there are also fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. The...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2012. — 422 p. — (Sign Language Typology 4). The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These sign languages represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality, and the book is the first compilation...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 304 p. — (Sign Language Typology 5). In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 304 p. — (Sign Language Typology 5). In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 400 p. — (Sign Language Typology 6). Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries, especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially challenging for investigations of sign languages, because there are no existing corpora for most of them, and some are completely...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 400 p. — (Sign Language Typology 6). Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries, especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially challenging for investigations of sign languages, because there are no existing corpora for most of them, and some are completely...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 305 p. — (Sign Language Typology 7). This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus the volume is highly innovative and presents data and...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 370 p. — (Sign Language Typology 8). This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 370 p. — (Sign Language Typology 8). This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 462 p. — (Sign Language Typology 9). This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to the gestures produced in the surrounding communities of hearing individuals. Olivier Le Guen, Marie Coppola and Josefina Safar - Introduction: How Emerging...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 462 p. — (Sign Language Typology 9). This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to the gestures produced in the surrounding communities of hearing individuals. Olivier Le Guen, Marie Coppola and Josefina Safar - Introduction: How Emerging...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 355 p. — (Sign Language Typology 10). This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, Tianjin) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 356 p. — (Sign Language Typology 10). This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, Tianjin) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 634 p. — (Sign Language Typology 11). This grammar of Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) phonology adds to a sparse literature on the units of categorical form in the world’s sign languages. At the same time, it brings descriptive and theoretical research on sign language phonology into better alignment by systematically evaluating current models of sign...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 636 p. — (Sign Language Typology 11). This grammar of Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) phonology adds to a sparse literature on the units of categorical form in the world’s sign languages. At the same time, it brings descriptive and theoretical research on sign language phonology into better alignment by systematically evaluating current models of sign...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. — 368 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 281). Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 98 p. Taboo topics in deaf communities include the usual ones found in spoken languages, as well as ones particular to deaf experiences, both in how deaf people relate to hearing people and how deaf people interact with other deaf people. Attention to these topics can help linguists understand better the consequences of field method choices...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 102 р. This Element describes creative sign language in deaf literature. To showcase the exciting developments in Latin American deaf literature, the authors focus upon creative Libras as it is used by the Brazilian deaf community, while emphasising aspects of Libras literature that can be seen in similar productions and performances in sign...
Gallaudet University Press, 2009. — 329 p. The Fourth Volume in the Interpreter Education Series From the moment the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI) was established in 2005, an overwhelming wave of requests from around the world arrived seeking information and resources for educating and training interpreters. This new collection provides those answers...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 290 p. 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...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 248 p. Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their form and functions remain uncertain. This first empirical analysis of mouth actions in Irish Sign Language focuses on correlations with gender, age, and word class. It contributes to the linguistic description of ISL, research...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 359 p. — (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities 5). This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 218 p. A comprehensive history of deafness, signed languages, and the unresolved struggles of the Deaf to be taught in their unspoken tongue. Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly researched book, he uncovers the centuries-long...
Open Agenda Publishing, 2020. — 152 p. This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and renowned researcher of sign languages Carol Padden, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication at UC San Diego. This extensive conversation covers topics such as growing up with ASL, Carol's early work with Bill Stokoe, the linguistic complexity,...
Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2018. — 192 p. — ISBN 978-1-56368-672-6. Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million members of the Ethiopian Deaf community, but it...
Gallaudet University Press, 2018. — 128 p. Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million members of the Ethiopian Deaf community, but it remains an under-researched language. In...