Sign Language & Linguistics

Volume 18, Issue 1 (2015)

2015. iii, 166 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.18.1

Table of Contents

Articles
Researching linguistic features of text genres in a DGS corpus: The case of finger loci Martje Hansen and Jens Hessmann	1–40
Head movements in Finnish Sign Language on the basis of Motion Capture data: A study of the form and function of nods, nodding, head thrusts, and head pulls Anna Puupponen, Tuija Wainio, Birgitta Burger and Tommi Jantunen	41–89
Two languages at hand: Code-switching in bilingual deaf signers Ulrike Zeshan and Sibaji Panda	90–131
Book reviews
Review of Leeson & Saeed (2012): Irish Sign Language. A Cognitive Linguistic Account Reviewed by Christina Healy	132–134
Review of Arık (2013): Current Directions in Turkish Sign Language Research Reviewed by Donna Jo Napoli	135–141
Dissertation abstracts
Information Structure in Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands: (University of Amsterdam, 2014) Vadim Kimmelman	142–150
Linguistic functions of head and body movements in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). A corpus-based analysis: (Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 2013) Andrea Lackner	151–157
Sociolinguistic variation, language change and contact in the British Sign Language (BSL) lexicon: (Deafness Cognition & Language Research Centre, University College London, 2013) Rose Stamp	158–166

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CFZ: Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General