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Exploring British Sign Language Via Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Metafunctional Approach

by Luke A. Rudge
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781350334304
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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  • Pages: 184
  • Original Price: GBP 29.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 454 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sign Language

One of many natural sign languages in use around the world, British Sign Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the visual-spatial modality, through the simultaneous use of embodied articulators. Filling a gap in current research, this book investigates visual-spatial communications from a functional perspective.
Presenting a description and analysis of BSL from the perspective of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, Luke A. Rudge explores how BSL users make meaning from three different yet interrelated perspectives:
- How exchanges of information are managed at a social level (the interpersonal metafunction)
- How experience is encoded in the language (the experiential metafunction)
- How communications are organised into coherent parts and wholes (the textual metafunction)
Examining these perspectives both separately and together, Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics places them within the context of current observations in sign linguistics, providing a complementary viewpoint on how visual-spatial communications may be understood as social semiosis.

Caldwell, David: - David Caldwell is a Senior Lecturer in English Language at the University of South Australia.

Knox, John S.: - John S. Knox is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Macquarie University, Australia.

Martin, J. R.: -

J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. The Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics was opened by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014.

Rudge, Luke A.: - Luke A. Rudge is a Visiting Fellow of the Bristol Centre for Linguistics at the University of the West of England, UK.

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