Language from the Body
Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 February 2001
- ISBN 9780521770620
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 229x152x19 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Language from the Body deals with iconicity and metaphor in American sign language.
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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 believe that meaning pervades and motivates all levels of linguistic structure. This dispute can be resolved conclusively by evidence from signed languages. Signed languages are full of iconic linguistic items: words, inflections, and even syntactic constructions with structural similarities between their physical form and their referents' form. Iconic items can have concrete meanings and also abstract meanings through conceptual metaphors. Language from the Body rebuts the generativist linguistic theories which separate form and meaning and asserts that iconicity can only be described in a cognitivist framework where meaning can influence form.
"Language from the Body will capture the imagination of all readers who are fascinated with the human language capacity. I expect the book to stand as one of the groundbreaking works on sign language, in a line with Klima and Bellugi's The Signs of Language, which opened the field to modern investigation over twenty years ago." Dan I. Slobin, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Table of Contents:
1. A glimpse of the material; 2. Motivation and linguistic theory; 3. Iconicity defined and demonstrated; 4. The analogue-building model of linguistic iconicity; 5. Survey of iconicity in signed and spoken languages; 6. Metaphor in American Sign Language: the double mapping; 7. Many metaphors in a single sign; 8. The vertical scale as source domain; 9. Verb agreement paths in American Sign Language; 10. Complex superposition of metaphors in an American Sign Language poem; 11. The future of signed-language research; Appendices; References; Index.
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