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- Discourse in Signed Languages
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Gallaudet University Press
summary
In this volume, editor Cynthia B. Roy presents a stellar cast of cognitive linguists, sociolinguists, and discourse analysts to discover and demonstrate how sign language users make sense of what is going on within their social and cultural contexts in face-to-face interactions. In the first chapter, Paul Dudis presents an innovative perspective on depiction in discourse. Mary Thumann follows with her observations on constructed dialogue and constructed action. Jack Hoza delineates the discourse and politeness functions of HEY and WELL in ASL as examples of discourse markers in the third chapter.
Laurie Swabey investigates reference in ASL discourse in the fourth chapter. In Chapter 5, Christopher Stone offers insights on register related to genre in British Sign Language discourse, and Daniel Roush addresses in Chapter 6 the “conduit” metaphor in English and ASL. Jeffrey Davis completes this collection by mapping out the nature of discourse in Plains Indian Sign Language, a previously unstudied language. The major thread that ties together the work of these varying linguists is their common focus on the forms and functions of sign languages used by people in actual situations. They each provide new keys to answering how thoughts expressed in one setting with one term or one utterance may mean something totally different when expressed in a different setting with different participants and different purposes.
Table of Contents
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- Contributors
- p. xi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xix
- Part I. Depiction in Discourse
- The Body in Scene Depictions
- pp. 3-66
- Part II. Cohesion in Discourse
- Referring Expressions in ASL Discourse
- pp. 96-118
- Part III. Coherence in Discourse
- Part IV. Discourse in Native American Sign Language
Additional Information
ISBN
9781563685125
Related ISBN(s)
9781563685118
MARC Record
OCLC
808778106
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No