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Book Expressing Change of States in Taiwan Sign Language

Download or read book Expressing Change of States in Taiwan Sign Language written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates

Download or read book From Verbal Periphrases to Complex Predicates written by Mar Garachana Camarero and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, which can be considered as a follow-up publication to Pusch & Wesch (2003), contains ten studies on verbal periphrases in a wide array of Romance languages, both in a synchronic and in a historic perspective. Thus, this collective volume addresses the Romance verbal periphrastic system as a whole. The aim of the contributions is twofold: on the one hand, the authors intend to enrich the knowledge about the inventory of verbal periphrases of Romance languages, both in descriptive and analytical terms. On the other hand, the volume seeks to provide new insights for the study of the grammatical, pragmatic, and cognitive foundations of verbal periphrases, in order to enlarge our comprehension of their genesis, their evolution and their usage. Languages treated in the contributions include Catalan, (European) French, Friulian, (European) Portuguese, Romanian, (European) Spanish, and Catalan Sign Language (LSC).

Book Sign Language in Action

Download or read book Sign Language in Action written by Jemina Napier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in various domains. The book gives professionals working with sign languages, signed language teachers and students, research students and their supervisors, authoritative access to current ideas and practice.

Book The Deaf Way

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Erting
  • Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781563680267
  • Pages : 972 pages

Download or read book The Deaf Way written by Carol Erting and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected papers from the conference held in Washington DC, July 9-14, 1989.

Book International Bibliography of Sign Language

Download or read book International Bibliography of Sign Language written by Guido H. G. Joachim and published by Gallaudet University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In dual English and German texts, this comprehensive reference presents bibliographical information for all publications on sign language before 1993, including articles, videotapes, and available unpublished papers and articles. Listed alphabetically, the entries have been arranged in 14 topical categories for easiest use.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics written by William S.-Y. Wang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the entire field from a multi-disciplinary perspective. All chapters are contributed by leading scholars in their respective areas. This Handbook contains eight sections: history, languages and dialects, language contact, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, socio-cultural aspects and neuro-psychological aspects. It provides not only a diachronic view of how languages evolve, but also a synchronic view of how languages in contact enrich each other by borrowing new words, calquing loan translation and even developing new syntactic structures. It also accompanies traditional linguistic studies of grammar and phonology with empirical evidence from psychology and neurocognitive sciences. In addition to research on the Chinese language and its major dialect groups, this handbook covers studies on sign languages and non-Chinese languages, such as the Austronesian languages spoken in Taiwan.

Book The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia

Download or read book The SAGE Deaf Studies Encyclopedia written by Genie Gertz and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time has come for a new in-depth encyclopedic collection of articles defining the current state of Deaf Studies at an international level and using the critical and intersectional lens encompassing the field. The emergence of Deaf Studies programs at colleges and universities and the broadened knowledge of social sciences (including but not limited to Deaf History, Deaf Culture, Signed Languages, Deaf Bilingual Education, Deaf Art, and more) have served to expand the activities of research, teaching, analysis, and curriculum development. The field has experienced a major shift due to increasing awareness of Deaf Studies research since the mid-1960s. The field has been further influenced by the Deaf community’s movement, resistance, activism and politics worldwide, as well as the impact of technological advances, such as in communications, with cell phones, computers, and other devices. A major goal of this new encyclopedia is to shift focus away from the “Medical/Pathological Model” that would view Deaf individuals as needing to be “fixed” in order to correct hearing and speaking deficiencies for the sole purpose of assimilating into mainstream society. By contrast, The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia seeks to carve out a new and critical perspective on Deaf Studies with the focus that the Deaf are not a people with a disability to be treated and “cured” medically, but rather, are members of a distinct cultural group with a distinct and vibrant community and way of being.

Book Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities

Download or read book Sociolinguistics and Deaf Communities written by Ceil Lucas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of the sociolinguistics of sign languages.

Book Sign Language Phonology

Download or read book Sign Language Phonology written by Diane Brentari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

Book Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing wen

Download or read book Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing wen written by Gunter Schubert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a substantive assessment of the first Tsai Ing-wen administration, investigating different policy fields and issues from 2016 to 2020, prior to Tsai’s election for a second term. Providing a balanced account of government performance under Tsai’s Ing-wen’s reign, chapters in this edited volume combine theory and extensive empirical data to highlight both achievements and shortfalls of her administration. Chapters range comprehensively from topics of the implementation of same-sex marriage, curriculum reform, ‘transitional justice’, industrial policy and pension reform, which have been celebrated by domestic Tsai Ing-wen supporters, but have also met with considerable opposition from within Taiwanese society. Externally, cross-strait relations, the New Southbound Policy and the triangular relationship with China and the USA, which embodied major challenges for Tsai’s first administration, are also analysed as key reference points throughout. Featuring contributions from twenty six internationally renowned Taiwan scholars, Taiwan During the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen is an essential resource for students and scholars of Taiwanese politics and society, cross-strait relations and international relations.

Book Language and Gesture

Download or read book Language and Gesture written by David McNeill and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmark study on the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Conference

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Conference written by RESNA (Association). Conference and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The clausal syntax of German Sign Language

Download or read book The clausal syntax of German Sign Language written by Fabian Bross and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a hypothesis-based description of the clausal structure of German Sign Language (DGS). The structure of the book is based on the three clausal layers CP, IP/TP, and VoiceP. The main hypothesis is that scopal height is expressed iconically in sign languages: the higher the scope of an operator, the higher the articulator used for its expression. The book was written with two audiences in mind: On the one hand it addresses linguists interested in sign languages and on the other hand it addresses cartographers.

Book Space in Danish Sign Language

Download or read book Space in Danish Sign Language written by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantics and Morphosyntax of the Use of Space in a Visual Language

Book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human Language

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Hagoort
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2019-10-29
  • ISBN : 0262042630
  • Pages : 753 pages

Download or read book Human Language written by Peter Hagoort and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions from a range of fields to examine humans' language capacity from multiple perspectives, analyzing it at genetic, neurobiological, psychological, and linguistic levels. In recent decades, advances in computational modeling, neuroimaging, and genetic sequencing have made possible new approaches to the study of language, and the contributors draw on these developments. The book examines cognitive architectures, investigating the functional organization of the major language skills; learning and development trajectories, summarizing the current understanding of the steps and neurocognitive mechanisms in language processing; evolutionary and other preconditions for communication by means of natural language; computational tools for modeling language; cognitive neuroscientific methods that allow observations of the human brain in action, including fMRI, EEG/MEG, and others; the neural infrastructure of language capacity; the genome's role in building and maintaining the language-ready brain; and insights from studying such language-relevant behaviors in nonhuman animals as birdsong and primate vocalization. Section editors Christian F. Beckmann, Carel ten Cate, Simon E. Fisher, Peter Hagoort, Evan Kidd, Stephen C. Levinson, James M. McQueen, Antje S. Meyer, David Poeppel, Caroline F. Rowland, Constance Scharff, Ivan Toni, Willem Zuidema

Book Cultural Intimacy

Download or read book Cultural Intimacy written by Michael Herzfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed theoretical framework and additional clarification of core concepts such as disemia, social poetics and structural nostalgia. The text has been fully updated in light of recent scholarship and events, including comment on Greece and the European Union. There is new material drawn from regions such as Thailand and China, and further consideration of religious intimacy and its impact on cities. The book improves our understanding of how states, societies and institutions function and illustrates the relevance of anthropology to contemporary issues such as globalization, censorship, ethnic conflict and nationalism.