Signed Language and Cognitive Grammar

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This Element introduces a Cognitive Grammar approach to signed language grammatical phenomena. It explores the history of sign linguistics, Stokoe's phonology, the duality of patterning, and CG principles, constructs, and models, and analyzes signed language constructions in CG and the controversial role of gesture in grammatical constructions.

Contenu

1. Introduction; 2. Fundamental principles; 3. Elements of cognitive grammar; 4. Signed language and cognitive grammar; 5. Modality; 6. The meaning of facial displays; 7. Gesture and language; Conclusions; References.