Metaphor In American Sign Language
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Metaphor in American Sign Language
Author: Phyllis Perrin Wilcox
language: en
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Release Date: 2000
As she explains, "If the iconic influence that surrounds metaphor is set aside, the results will be greater understanding and interpretations that are less opaque."".
Language from the Body
Author: Sarah F. Taub
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2001-02-26
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.
Linguistics of American Sign Language
Author: Clayton Valli
language: en
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
Release Date: 2000
New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4.