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Language from the body : iconicity and metaphor in American Sign Language

Author: Sarah F Taub
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sarah F Taub
ISBN: 0521770629 9780521770620
OCLC Number: 44117963
Description: xvi, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: A glimpse of the material --
Motivation and linguistic theory --
Iconicity defined and demonstrated --
The analogue-building model of linguistic iconicity --
Survey of iconicity in signed and spoken languages --
Metaphor in American Sign Language: the double mapping --
Many metaphors in a single sign --
The vertical scale as source domain --
Verb agreement paths in American Sign Language --
Complex superposition of metaphors in an American Sign Language poem --
The future of signed-language research.
Responsibility: Sarah F. Taub.
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