SubjectsLinguistics / Signed languages
Journals
ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773
Sign Language & Linguistics
Edited by Roland Pfau and Pamela Perniss
ISSN 1387-9316 | E‑ISSN 1569‑996X
Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics
Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer
This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their… read more[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] 2023. xxii, 389 pp.
Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory
Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the… read more[Gesture Studies, 9] 2022. vi, 220 pp.
Recurrent Gestures
Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem
Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.
Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy
Josef Fulka
The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view… read more[Gesture Studies, 8] 2020. vii, 166 pp.
Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province
Adam Kendon †
This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed… read more[Not in series, 226] 2020. xvii, 201 pp.
Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir
Edited by Diane Lillo-Martin, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2 (2020) vi, 285 pp.
Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll
Edited by Gary Morgan
The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 25] 2020. xv, 214 pp.
Anthropology of Gesture
Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen
Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
Event Structure Metaphors through the Body: Translation from English to American Sign Language
Daniel R. Roush
How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who… read more[Figurative Thought and Language, 4] 2018. xv, 224 pp.
Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages
Edited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 (2018) v, 216 pp.
Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages
Edited by Annika Hübl and Markus Steinbach
In recent years, the focus of linguistic research has shifted from sentence to larger units such as text and discourse and accordingly from syntax to semantics and pragmatics. This has led to the development and application of corresponding discourse semantic and pragmatic theories such as, for… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 247] 2018. xii, 311 pp.
Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics
Jan Nijen Twilhaar and Beppie van den Bogaerde
This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists, learners and other sign language users, and of course of the Deaf… read more[Not in series, 201] 2016. xi, 230 pp.
The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction
Edited by Anne E. Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer
How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the… read more[Not in series, 199] 2016. xv, 378 pp.
The Sign Language Interpreting Studies Reader
Edited by Cynthia B. Roy and Jemina Napier
In Sign Language Interpreting (SLI) there is a great need for a volume devoted to classic and seminal articles and essays dedicated to this specific domain of language interpreting. Students, educators, and practitioners will benefit from having access to a collection of historical and influential… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 117] 2015. xviii, 419 pp.
Signs and Structures: Formal Approaches to Sign Language Syntax
Edited by Paweł Rutkowski
As sign language linguistics has become an important and prodigious field of research in the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that the repertoire of methodological approaches to the study of the communication of the Deaf has also expanded considerably. While earlier work on sign languages… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 71] 2015. v, 143 pp.
Where do nouns come from?
Edited by John B. Haviland
The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 70] 2015. v, 140 pp.
Nonmanuals in Sign Language
Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach
In addition to the hands, sign languages make extensive use of nonmanual articulators such as the body, head, and face to convey linguistic information. This collected volume focuses on the forms and functions of nonmanuals in sign languages. The articles discuss various aspects of specific… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 53] 2013. v, 197 pp.
Sign Language Syntax from a Formal Perspective: Selected Papers from the 2012 Warsaw FEAST
Edited by Paweł Rutkowski
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 16:2 (2013) v, 166 pp.
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.
New Methodologies in Sign Language Phonology: Papers from TISLR 10
Edited by Diane Brentari and Ronnie B. Wilbur
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 15:1 (2012) v, pp. 183
Nonmanuals in Sign Language
Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 14:1 (2011) vi, 212 pp.
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
Special issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010) vi, 232 pp.
Dimensions of gesture
Edited by Adam Kendon † and Tommaso Russo Cardona
Special issue of Gesture 8:1 (2008) 153 pp.
Gestures in language development
Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Kees de Bot
Special issue of Gesture 8:2 (2008) 145 pp.
Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations
Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López
This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations… read more[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.
Sign Language Acquisition
Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll
How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 14] 2008. xi, 167 pp.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 10] 2007. xiv, 284 pp.
Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill
Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy
Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural… read more[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.
Identifying sentences in signed languages
Edited by Onno A. Crasborn
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 10:2 (2007) 140 pp.
Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function
Edited by Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn
Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 281] 2007. viii, 360 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
Investigating Understudied Sign Languages - Croatian SL and Austrian SL, with comparison to American SL
Edited by Ronnie B. Wilbur
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 9:1/2 (2006) v, 256 pp.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
Special issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005) 324 pp.
Language Acquisition
Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 8:1/2 (2005) 222 pp.
Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice
Edited by Terry Janzen
Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice. Yet interpreting into and from signed languages presents unique challenges for the interpreter, who works… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 63] 2005. xii, 362 pp.
Directions in Sign Language Acquisition
Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll
As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.e., Brazilian Sign Language, American SL, SL of the… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 2] 2002. xx, 339 pp.
Sign Transcription and Database Storage of Sign Information
Edited by Brita Bergman, Penny Boyes Braem, Thomas Hanke and Elena Antinoro Pizzuto
Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 4:1/2 (2001) iv, 302
Sign Language in Indo-Pakistan: A description of a signed language
Ulrike Zeshan
To find a suitable framework for the description of a previously undocumented language is all the more challenging in the case of a signed language. In this book, for the first time, an indigenous Asian sign language used in deaf communities in India and Pakistan is described on all linguistically… read more[Not in series, 101] 2000. xii, 178 pp.