Emerging Sign Languages of the Americas
This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to the gestures produced in the surrounding communities of hearing individuals. Contents Acknowledgements Olivier Le Guen, Marie Coppola and J...
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| Формат: | Электронная книга |
| Язык: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2020]
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| Серии: | Sign Language Typology [SLT] ;
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Оглавление:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: How Emerging Sign Languages in the Americas contributes to the study of linguistics and (emerging) sign languages
- Part I: Emerging sign languages of the Americas. Descriptions and analysis
- Signs, interaction, coordination, and gaze: Interactive foundations of "Z"--an emerging (sign) language from Chiapas, Mexico
- Representational strategies in shared homesign systems from Nebaj, Guatemala
- Strategies of noun-verb distinction in Yucatec Maya Sign Languages
- A Typological Perspective on the Meaningful Handshapes in the Emerging Sign Languages on Marajó Island (Brazil)
- Emerging sign languages in the Caribbean
- Yucatec Maya multimodal interaction as basis for Yucatec Maya Sign Language
- Gestures, homesign, sign language: Cultural and social factors driving lexical conventionalization
- Part II: Sociolinguistic sketches
- Zinacantec family homesign (or "Z")
- A sociolinguistic sketch of deaf individuals and families from Nebaj, Guatemala
- Yucatec Maya Sign Language(s): A sociolinguistic overview
- Sign languages on Marajó Island (Brazil)
- Sociolinguistic sketch of Providence Island Sign Language
- Bay Islands Sign Language: A sociolinguistic sketch
- Sociolinguistic sketch: Nicaraguan Sign Language and homesign systems in Nicaragua
- Language Index
- Subject Index