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Irish Sign Language : a cognitive linguistic account
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ISBN: 9780748638239 9780748656295 9780748656509 9780748656301 0748656294 0748656502 0748656308 0748638237 Year: 2012 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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As the only book of its kind, this book describes the social and historical background of this signed language and places Irish Sign Language in a world context. The Signs of Ireland corpus is used to introduce phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics.It also examines the key influences driving signed language linguistics in the past decade, including: recognition of the role of gesture; the influence of cognitive linguistics; the complexities of iconic representation in signing space; the role of simultaneous construction; and the grammar of ISL. All examples listed are drawn f


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Mouth actions in sign languages : an empirical study of Irish sign language
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ISBN: 1614514976 1614519048 1614517053 1614514984 Year: 2014 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their form and functions remain uncertain. This first empirical analysis of mouth actions in Irish Sign Language focuses on correlations with gender, age, and word class. It contributes to the linguistic description of ISL, research into non-manuals in sign languages, and is relevant for the cross-modal study of word classes.

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