Sign Languages

Höfundar: Joseph C. Hill; Diane C. Lillo-Martin; Sandra K. Wood (Útgáfa: 2)
Sign Languages

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Sign Languages: Structures and Contexts provides a succinct summary of major findings in the linguistic study of natural sign languages. Focusing on American Sign Language (ASL), this book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic grammatical components of phonology, morphology, and syntax with examples and illustrations. Revised throughout, this new edition: demonstrates how sign languages are acquired by Deaf children with varying degrees of input during early development, including no input where children create a language of their own discusses the contexts of sign languages, including how different varieties are formed and used, attitudes toward sign languages, and how language planning affects language use includes a new chapter on the similarities between signed and spoken languages offers additional visuals and explanations as well as more coverage of signed languages other than ASL is accompanied by updated online support material, which hosts links to video clips This engaging and accessible introduction to sign languages is essential reading for students studying this topic for the first time with little or no background in linguistics.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781040311714
Print ISBN
9781032585048
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
2
Höfundar
Joseph C. Hill; Diane C. Lillo-Martin; Sandra K. Wood
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2025-04-30
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Sign languages and their users
  • 1.2 Sign languages and American Sign Language
  • 1.3 Key linguistic concepts
  • 1.4 Using this book
  • 2 Phonology
  • 2.1 What is phonology?
  • 2.2 Signs have parts
  • 2.3 Signs are constrained
  • 2.4 Linearity and simultaneity
  • 2.5 Sign language prosody
  • 2.6 Are there syllables in sign languages?
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • 3 Morphology
  • 3.1 What is morphology?
  • 3.2 Word formation
  • 3.2.1 Iconicity
  • 3.2.2 Compounding
  • 3.2.3 Fingerspelling and initialization
  • 3.3 Derivation
  • 3.3.1 Noun–verb pairs
  • 3.3.2 Other types of derivation
  • 3.4 Inflection
  • 3.4.1 Verbal morphology
  • 3.4.2 Pluralization
  • 3.5 Classifiers
  • 3.6 Conclusion
  • 4 Syntax
  • 4.1 What is syntax?
  • 4.1.1 Overview of the chapter
  • 4.2 Word order in ASL
  • 4.3 Syntactic structures with brow raise
  • 4.3.1 Yes/no interrogatives
  • 4.3.2 Conditionals
  • 4.3.3 Topicalization
  • 4.4 Wh-questions
  • 4.4.1 Marking the wh-question
  • 4.4.2 The four WHATs
  • 4.4.3 Position of the wh-word
  • 4.4.4 Wh-doubling and multiple wh-questions
  • 4.5 Negation
  • 4.5.1 Nonmanuals for negation
  • 4.5.2 Lexical signs for negation
  • 4.5.3 Doubling and negative concord
  • 4.6 Conclusion
  • 5 Modality and language
  • 5.1 Language and modality
  • 5.2 Phonology
  • 5.3 Morphosyntax
  • 5.4 Semantics
  • 5.5 Language acquisition
  • 5.6 Conclusion
  • 6 Children with input from birth
  • 6.1 Deaf children of Deaf, signing parents
  • 6.1.1 The first steps
  • 6.1.2 Lexical development
  • 6.1.3 Phonological development
  • 6.1.4 Development of morphology and syntax
  • 6.1.5 Iconicity and sign language development
  • 6.2 Bimodal bilingualism
  • 6.2.1 Simultaneous acquisition of a sign language and a spoken language – Kodas
  • 6.2.2 Simultaneous acquisition of a sign language and a spoken language – DDCI
  • 6.3 Effects of non-native input
  • 6.4 Conclusion
  • 7 Contexts of later language development
  • 7.1 The critical period hypothesis
  • 7.2 Children receiving late input in a sign language
  • 7.3 Adults who had received late input in a sign language
  • 7.4 Adults learning a sign language as L2
  • 7.5 Signers learning the written form of a spoken language
  • 7.6 Conclusion
  • 8 Homesign systems
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 What are homesigns?
  • 8.2.1 Components of a homesign system
  • 8.2.2 Cross-cultural comparisons of homesigners
  • 8.3 Adult homesigners
  • 8.4 Homesigners’ acquisition of a conventional signed language
  • 8.5 Conclusion
  • 9 Variation
  • 9.1 Sociocultural components in linguistic theories
  • 9.2 Conditions affecting language use and variation
  • 9.2.1 Factors in the formation and maintenance of sign languages
  • 9.2.2 Families of sign languages in historical, linguistic, and social contexts
  • 9.3 Variation within sign languages
  • 9.3.1 Geographical factors in variation
  • 9.3.2 Social factors in variation
  • 9.3.3 Factors unique to sign languages
  • 9.4 Impracticality of maintaining a universal sign language
  • 9.5 Conclusion
  • 10 Language attitudes
  • 10.1 Defining attitudes
  • 10.2 Attitudes toward language, culture, and identity
  • 10.2.1 The case of racism and language in the United States
  • 10.2.2 The case of cultural identity and language in the American Deaf community
  • 10.3 Notion of standard and prestige
  • 10.3.1 Linguistic and social differences between varieties
  • 10.3.2 Overt prestige
  • 10.3.3 Covert prestige
  • 10.4 Language attitudes and choices in a diglossic context
  • 10.5 Conclusion
  • 11 Language policy and planning
  • 11.1 Written and unwritten rules for language use
  • 11.2 Language practices
  • 11.2.1 Language practices in sign language
  • 11.3 Language ideology
  • 11.3.1 Language ideology about sign languages
  • 11.4 Language management
  • 11.4.1 Status planning
  • 11.4.2 Corpus planning
  • 11.4.3 Acquisition planning
  • 11.5 Conclusion
  • 12 Conclusion
  • ASL Glosses Index
  • Index