Sign Language & Linguistics

Volume 18, Issue 1 (2015)

2015.  iii, 166 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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