| Language from the Body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language Contributor(s): Taub, Sarah F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521158605 ISBN-13: 9780521158602 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Sign Language - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 419 |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6" W x 9" (0.89 lbs) 274 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
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| Publisher Description: What is the role of meaning in linguistic theory? Generative linguists have severely limited its influence while cognitivist and functionalist linguists believe that meaning pervades and motivates all levels of linguistic structure. This dispute can now be resolved conclusively by evidence from signed language. Language from the Body rebuts the generativist linguistic theories that separate form and meaning and asserts that iconicity can only be described in a cognitivist framework where meaning can influence form. |