16028267 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code GS 9 Eb 15 9789027257840 06 10.1075/gs.9 13 2022012170 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code GS 02 1874-6829 02 9.00 01 02 Gesture Studies Gesture Studies 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-eba-2023 01 02 Compact EBA Collection 2023 (ca. 700 titles, starting 2018) 11 01 JB code jbe-2022 01 02 2022 collection (96 titles) 01 01 Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective Implications for a general language theory Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory 1 A01 01 JB code 917438220 Virginia Volterra Volterra, Virginia Virginia Volterra Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/917438220 2 A01 01 JB code 313438221 Maria Roccaforte Roccaforte, Maria Maria Roccaforte University of Rome “Sapienza” 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/313438221 3 A01 01 JB code 240438222 Alessio Di Renzo Di Renzo, Alessio Alessio Di Renzo Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/240438222 4 A01 01 JB code 790438223 Sabina Fontana Fontana, Sabina Sabina Fontana University of Catania 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/790438223 01 eng 11 226 03 03 vi 03 00 220 03 10 LAN017000 12 CFZ 24 JB code LIN.COGN Cognition and language 24 JB code LIN.GEST Gesture Studies 24 JB code LIN.SEM Semiotics 24 JB code LIN.SIGN Signed languages 01 06 02 00 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. 03 00 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 past and only recently have been brought to the fore and described.
First, the study of face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy between linguistic and enacted, to develop a new approach to embodied language (Kendon, 2004).
Second, all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic and pragmatic meaning, as proposed by cognitive semantics, which considers it impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge.
Finally, if speech from the point of view of its materiality is variable, fragile, and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete), also signs are not always segmentable into discrete, invariable and meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties traditionally associated with human languages in general, notably that of ‘duality of patterning’.
These are only some of the main issues you will find in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages linguistic research.
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01 01 JB code gs.9.int 06 10.1075/gs.9.int 1 6 6 Introduction 1 01 04 From spoken to signed languages back and forth, between cognition and semiotics From spoken to signed languages back and forth, between cognition and semiotics 01 04 The case of Italian Sign Language The case of Italian Sign Language 01 eng 01 01 JB code gs.9.c1 06 10.1075/gs.9.c1 7 34 28 Chapter 2 01 04 Chapter 1. Historical steps towards a new description of sign languages Chapter 1. Historical steps towards a new description of sign languages 01 eng 30 00 In this chapter the factors that, in the past, gave rise to the first linguistic description of Italian Sign Language are examined along with the historical and social reasons behind these factors. The theoretical perspective underlying the description presented in this book is examined with a particular focus on the action-gesture-language continuity, which has been found in the acquisition of all spoken and signed languages. Four representational strategies that underlie the production of gestures in children and adults are shown to be also fundamental in the creation of signs. New theoretical assumptions that provide a better basis for descriptions of sign languages are presented and explained. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c2 06 10.1075/gs.9.c2 35 62 28 Chapter 3 01 04 Chapter 2. The community Chapter 2. The community 01 eng 30 00 This chapter analyzes the conditions that led to the foundation of the first schools for the deaf and to the emergence of the first Deaf Associations. The history of Deaf people in Italy has been characterized by various educational approaches in which sign language assumed a different role either alongside or in opposition to the education in spoken language. The characteristics of the Deaf community are described, as how the perception of Italian sign language has changed over time. Examples of cultural products expressing the identity of this community are provided, and more recent changes determined by the use of social media in daily life are described. Special attention is reserved to the unexpected resilience and reaction expressed in view of the health emergency of the Coronavirus pandemic by the Italian Deaf Community. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c3 06 10.1075/gs.9.c3 63 100 38 Chapter 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The basic units of LIS Chapter 3. The basic units of LIS 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c4 06 10.1075/gs.9.c4 101 132 32 Chapter 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Constructing sentences Chapter 4. Constructing sentences 01 04 Pointing, describing and depicting Pointing, describing and depicting 01 eng 30 00 In this chapter, the modifications of meaning units are described. Patterns characterizing the various signs modifications along a continuum ranging from the semantic to the pragmatic dimension are illustrated. Signers modify and create linguistic relations among signs by using their hands as well as their entire bodies to point at, to describe or to depict the referent. Consequently, the construction of discourse and conversation in LIS are described, taking into consideration their articulatory, cognitive, and semantic-pragmatic constraints of a sociolinguistic nature. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c5 06 10.1075/gs.9.c5 133 164 32 Chapter 6 01 04 Chapter 5. Variation and change in LIS Chapter 5. Variation and change in LIS 01 eng 30 00 In this chapter linguistic variations are examined by focusing on the different dimensions that influence them, including the communicative situation, the interlocutor, and the linguistic repertoire. Variations are discussed within the new theoretical perspective that considers language as a social action and social factors as part of language functioning. The diachronic and synchronic lexical change is explored and the development of a linguistic norm for sign language together with a consideration of the role of sociolinguistic factors in the shaping of metalinguistic reflection are discussed. Finally, euphemisms and taboo in LIS are explored as an area that shows how usage interacts with pragmatic and social norms. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c6 06 10.1075/gs.9.c6 165 190 26 Chapter 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Sign languages and spoken languages Chapter 6. Sign languages and spoken languages 01 04 Toward a new description Toward a new description 01 eng 30 00 In recent years an increasing number of linguists have begun writing about the characteristics of spoken language (versus written languages) in a way that is very similar to how sign language researchers have for years described the elements that they viewed as being uniquely relevant to visual-gestural languages. Today, the semiotic properties and structural features, which seem to most characterize sign languages, often overlooked by early research, are in fact greatly relevant to spoken languages as well. Five main topics relevant in the cognitive and socio-semiotic description of signed and spoken languages are highlighted, pointing towards a new theoretical perspective that considers human language a multimodal phenomenon, and leading us to rethink the very notion of language. 01 01 JB code gs.9.ref 06 10.1075/gs.9.ref 191 216 26 Miscellaneous 8 01 04 References References 01 eng 01 01 JB code gs.9.index 06 10.1075/gs.9.index 217 217 1 Miscellaneous 9 01 04 Index Index 01 eng 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/gs.9 Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20220901 C 2022 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027211002 WORLD 09 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 https://jbe-platform.com 29 https://jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027257840 21 01 00 Unqualified price 02 99.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 02 83.00 GBP GB 01 00 Unqualified price 02 149.00 USD
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First, the study of face-to-face communication leads to a revision of the traditional dichotomy between linguistic and enacted, to develop a new approach to embodied language (Kendon, 2004).
Second, all structures of language take on a sociolinguistic and pragmatic meaning, as proposed by cognitive semantics, which considers it impossible to trace a separation between purely linguistic and extralinguistic knowledge.
Finally, if speech from the point of view of its materiality is variable, fragile, and non-segmentable (i.e. not systematically discrete), also signs are not always segmentable into discrete, invariable and meaningless units. This then calls into question some of the properties traditionally associated with human languages in general, notably that of ‘duality of patterning’.
These are only some of the main issues you will find in this volume that has no parallel both in sign and in spoken languages linguistic research.
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01 01 JB code gs.9.int 06 10.1075/gs.9.int 1 6 6 Introduction 1 01 04 From spoken to signed languages back and forth, between cognition and semiotics From spoken to signed languages back and forth, between cognition and semiotics 01 04 The case of Italian Sign Language The case of Italian Sign Language 01 eng 01 01 JB code gs.9.c1 06 10.1075/gs.9.c1 7 34 28 Chapter 2 01 04 Chapter 1. Historical steps towards a new description of sign languages Chapter 1. Historical steps towards a new description of sign languages 01 eng 30 00 In this chapter the factors that, in the past, gave rise to the first linguistic description of Italian Sign Language are examined along with the historical and social reasons behind these factors. The theoretical perspective underlying the description presented in this book is examined with a particular focus on the action-gesture-language continuity, which has been found in the acquisition of all spoken and signed languages. Four representational strategies that underlie the production of gestures in children and adults are shown to be also fundamental in the creation of signs. New theoretical assumptions that provide a better basis for descriptions of sign languages are presented and explained. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c2 06 10.1075/gs.9.c2 35 62 28 Chapter 3 01 04 Chapter 2. The community Chapter 2. The community 01 eng 30 00 This chapter analyzes the conditions that led to the foundation of the first schools for the deaf and to the emergence of the first Deaf Associations. The history of Deaf people in Italy has been characterized by various educational approaches in which sign language assumed a different role either alongside or in opposition to the education in spoken language. The characteristics of the Deaf community are described, as how the perception of Italian sign language has changed over time. Examples of cultural products expressing the identity of this community are provided, and more recent changes determined by the use of social media in daily life are described. Special attention is reserved to the unexpected resilience and reaction expressed in view of the health emergency of the Coronavirus pandemic by the Italian Deaf Community. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c3 06 10.1075/gs.9.c3 63 100 38 Chapter 4 01 04 Chapter 3. The basic units of LIS Chapter 3. The basic units of LIS 01 eng 30 00 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. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c4 06 10.1075/gs.9.c4 101 132 32 Chapter 5 01 04 Chapter 4. Constructing sentences Chapter 4. Constructing sentences 01 04 Pointing, describing and depicting Pointing, describing and depicting 01 eng 30 00 In this chapter, the modifications of meaning units are described. Patterns characterizing the various signs modifications along a continuum ranging from the semantic to the pragmatic dimension are illustrated. Signers modify and create linguistic relations among signs by using their hands as well as their entire bodies to point at, to describe or to depict the referent. Consequently, the construction of discourse and conversation in LIS are described, taking into consideration their articulatory, cognitive, and semantic-pragmatic constraints of a sociolinguistic nature. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c5 06 10.1075/gs.9.c5 133 164 32 Chapter 6 01 04 Chapter 5. Variation and change in LIS Chapter 5. Variation and change in LIS 01 eng 30 00 In this chapter linguistic variations are examined by focusing on the different dimensions that influence them, including the communicative situation, the interlocutor, and the linguistic repertoire. Variations are discussed within the new theoretical perspective that considers language as a social action and social factors as part of language functioning. The diachronic and synchronic lexical change is explored and the development of a linguistic norm for sign language together with a consideration of the role of sociolinguistic factors in the shaping of metalinguistic reflection are discussed. Finally, euphemisms and taboo in LIS are explored as an area that shows how usage interacts with pragmatic and social norms. 01 01 JB code gs.9.c6 06 10.1075/gs.9.c6 165 190 26 Chapter 7 01 04 Chapter 6. Sign languages and spoken languages Chapter 6. Sign languages and spoken languages 01 04 Toward a new description Toward a new description 01 eng 30 00 In recent years an increasing number of linguists have begun writing about the characteristics of spoken language (versus written languages) in a way that is very similar to how sign language researchers have for years described the elements that they viewed as being uniquely relevant to visual-gestural languages. Today, the semiotic properties and structural features, which seem to most characterize sign languages, often overlooked by early research, are in fact greatly relevant to spoken languages as well. 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