Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and Function

Simultaneous Interpreting from a Signed

📁 Simultaneous Interpreting from a Signed Language into a Spoken Language: Quality, Cognitive Overload, and Strategies

✍ Jihong Wang 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book examines conference-level simultaneous interpreting from a signed language into a spoken language, drawing on Auslan (Australian Sign Language)-to-English simultaneous interpretation data to explore the skills, knowledge, strategies, and cognitive abilities needed for effective interpretat

Information Structure in Sign Languages:

📁 Information Structure in Sign Languages: Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands

✍ Vadim Kimmelman 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p>This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in

Information Structure in Sign Languages:

📁 Information Structure in Sign Languages: Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands

✍ Vadim Kimmelman 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p>This book presents a first comprehensive overview of existing research on information structure in sign languages. Furthermore, it is combined with novel in-depth studies of Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands. The book discusses how topic, focus, and contrast are marked in

Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sig

📁 Form, Meaning, and Focus in American Sign Language

✍ Miako N. P. Rankin 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 Gallaudet University Press 🌐 English

The meaning of any linguistic expression resides not only in the words, but also in the ways that those words are conveyed. In her new study, Miako N. P. Rankin highlights the crucial interrelatedness of form and meaning at all levels in order to consider specific types of American Sign Language (AS

Functions of Head and Body Movements in

📁 Functions of Head and Body Movements in Austrian Sign Language

✍ Andrea Lackner 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p> Research on nonmanual elements – or ‘nonmanuals’ – in sign languages has focused on both the possible functions and the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign Language (Ö

Functions of Head and Body Movements in

📁 Functions of Head and Body Movements in Austrian Sign Language

✍ Andrea Lackner 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 De Gruyter Mouton 🌐 English

<p> Research on nonmanual elements – or ‘nonmanuals’ – in sign languages has focused on both the possible functions and the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign Language (Ö