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Publication details [#14058]

Wilbur, Ronnie and Cynthia G. Patschke. 1998. Body leans and the making of contrast in American Sign Language. Journal of Pragmatics 30 (3) : 275–303.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | contrastiveness | discourse | sign language

Language as a subject

Sign Language, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Prosodic, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic functions of forward and backward leaning to convey the notion of 'contrast' in American Sign Language are documented.