Search results for “[Subject: sign-language]”

• Author(s): Jemina Napier • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sign LanguageThis book defines the notion of applied sign linguistics by drawing on data from projects that have explored sign language in action in...

• Author(s): D. Umiker-Sebeok • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Questions & Answers1. THE SEMIOTIC CHARACTER OF ABORIGINAL SIGN LANGUAGES In our culture, language, especially in its spoken manifestation, is the much...

• Author(s): D. S. Clarke • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: LogicSince the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily c...

• Author(s): Andy Way | Lorraine Leeson | Dimitar Shterionov • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Translating & Interpreting

• Author(s): Eleni Efthimiou • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Software Development & Engineering - Computer GraphicsFrom the Back CoverThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Gestur...

• Author(s): R. Sutton-Spence • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sign LanguageThis new study is a major contribution to sign language study and to literature generally, looking at the complex grammatical, phono...

• Author(s): D. C. Lillo-Martin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sign LanguageAMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE American Sign Language (ASL) is the visual-gestural language used by most of the deaf community in the United States ...

• Author(s): D. McKee • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sign LanguageTeaching and Learning Signed Languages examines current practices, contexts, and the research nexus in the teaching and learning of signed l...

• Author(s): D. Gerver • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLanguage Interpretation and Communication: a NATO Symposium, was a multi-disciplinary meeting held from September 26 to October 1st 1977 at t...

• Author(s): Jemina Napier • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyFrom the Back CoverThis book details a study of sign language brokering that is carried out by deaf and hearing peo...

• Author(s): Ipke Wachsmuth | Timo Sowa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Interactive & MultimediaThe international gesture workshops are interdisciplinary events for those - searching gesture-based communication an...

• Author(s): Natalie Braber • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom the Back CoverThis book presents an overview of sociolinguistic research in England. Showcasing developments in ...

• Author(s): Ipke Wachsmuth • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: User InterfacesThis book presents the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of an International Workshop on Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Comput...

• Author(s): Virginia Volterra • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralVirginia Volterra and Carol Erting have made an important contribu- tion to knowledge with this selection of studies on language acquisi- tion. Col...

• Author(s): Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-Europ...

• Author(s): H. Kelly-Holmes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsAdvertising has traditionally communicated messages to consumers with strong local and national identities. However,...

• Author(s): Michael Shapiro • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryFrom the Back CoverThis book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. The main impetus for writing ...

• Author(s): Manako Yabe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: AdministrationFrom the Back CoverThis book guides healthcare professionals, hospital administrators, and medical interpreters in the United States (and internat...

• Author(s): I. Paul • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - SyntaxAustronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology. The papers in this volume encomp...

• Author(s): Jan M. Broekman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: LiteracyFrom the Back CoverThis book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on La...

• Author(s): G. E. Booij • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyA revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since ...

• Author(s): Laure Lansari • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsThis book is a comparative corpus-based study of discourse markers based on verbs of saying in English and French. Based on a...

• Author(s): Philip A. Harling • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Computer ScienceProgress in Gestural Interaction contains papers presented at the first Gesture Workshop, which was designed to bring together researchers...

• Author(s): Geert E. Booij • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sign LanguageA revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology, published since 1988, has proven to be an emin...

• Author(s): Donna Morere • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Developmental - ChildFrom the Back CoverHumans' development of literacy has been a recent focus of intense research across the reading, cognitive, and neurosci...

• Author(s): Louise Mullany • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - PragmaticsFrom the Back CoverThis edited book presents contemporary empirical research investigating the use of language in professio...

• Author(s): Teresa Satterfield • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeBilingual Selection of Syntactic Knowledge motivates a more formal approach in theoretical linguistics by inves...

• Author(s): M. Shimojo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: JapaneseJapanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types to be described? This book inve...

• Author(s): Nick Pilcher • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom the Back CoverThis book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a ...

• Author(s): Rebecca Hughes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - Phonetics & PhonologyLeading researchers in the field of spoken discourse and language teaching offer an empirically informed, is...

• Author(s): Katja F. Cantone • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe goal of this volume is to prove that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as ad...

• Author(s): Frank Fleerackers • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverEdmund Husserl's ideas, informed by Kant's Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of ...

• Author(s): Johannes Bronkhorst • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Ancient Languages (see also Latin)This book was written as a doctoral thesis. It was submitted to and accepted by the University of Poona in 1979. Sever...

• Author(s): U. Sauerland • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Linguistics - SemanticsAll humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of genera...

• Author(s): J. Angermuller • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Romance Languages (Other)This book presents developments of discourse analysis in France and applies its tools to key texts from five theorists of ...

• Author(s): Helen De Hoop • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationFrom the Back CoverAlthough (almost) all sentences have subjects, not all sentences encode their subjects in the same way. Some langu...