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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theoryVirginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
[Gesture Studies 9] 2022
► pp. 63–100
Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
[Gesture Studies 9] 2022
► pp. 63–100
Chapter 3The basic units of LIS
The chapter begins by focusing on the Sign languages representation, describing, in particular, the system called SignWriting, adopted in this book. The sublexical units of LIS are described from an articulatory perspective. The fundamental components of the language are presented: manual components (handshape, orientation, location and movement) and components traditionally categorized as non-manual (facial expression, mouth actions, movement of the torso and gaze direction). In the second part of the chapter, deictic, lexical and transfer units of meaning, are described as well as the strategies that contribute to their formation in the light of three mechanisms of signification: pointing, describing and depicting.
Article outline
- 3.1SignWriting
- 3.2The articulatory forms
- 3.3Units of meaning
- 3.4Mechanisms of signification
- 3.5Strategies and processes in the formation of units of meaning
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