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Language from the Body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language

By Sarah F. Taub

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780521770620, 0521770629
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2136187 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
275\275
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

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.

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