BIC SubjectsSign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication

Advances in Sign Language Corpus Linguistics

Edited by Ella Wehrmeyer

This collected volume showcases cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of sign language corpus linguistics in various sign language contexts across the globe. Each chapter provides a detailed account of particular national corpora and methodological considerations in their… read more

[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 108] 2023. xxii, 389 pp.

Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory

Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana

This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the… read more

[Gesture Studies, 9] 2022. vi, 220 pp.

Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy

Josef Fulka

The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view… read more

[Gesture Studies, 8] 2020. vii, 166 pp.

Sign Language in Papua New Guinea: A primary sign language from the Upper Lagaip Valley, Enga Province

Adam Kendon †

This book presents in revised form and as a single monograph three papers on a sign language from the Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Originally published in 1980, for more than twenty years these papers remained the only report of a sign language from that part of the world. The detailed… read more

[Not in series, 226] 2020. xvii, 201 pp.

Special Issue in Memory of Irit Meir

Edited by Diane Lillo-Martin, Wendy Sandler, Marie Coppola and Rose Stamp

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 23:1/2 (2020) vi, 285 pp.

Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll

Edited by Gary Morgan

The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and… read more

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 25] 2020. xv, 214 pp.

Impersonal human reference in Sign Languages

Edited by Gemma Barberà and Patricia Cabredo Hofherr

Special issue of Sign Language & Linguistics 21:2 (2018) v, 216 pp.

Concise Lexicon for Sign Linguistics

Jan Nijen Twilhaar and Beppie van den Bogaerde

This extensive, well-researched and clearly formatted lexicon of a wide variety of linguistic terms is a long overdue. It is an extremely welcome addition to the bookshelves of sign language teachers, interpreters, linguists, learners and other sign language users, and of course of the Deaf… read more

[Not in series, 201] 2016. xi, 230 pp.

The Linguistics of Sign Languages: An introduction

Edited by Anne E. Baker, Beppie van den Bogaerde, Roland Pfau and Trude Schermer

How different are sign languages across the world? Are individual signs and signed sentences constructed in the same way across these languages? What are the rules for having a conversation in a sign language? How do children and adults learn a sign language? How are sign languages processed in the… read more

[Not in series, 199] 2016. xv, 378 pp.

Nonmanuals in Sign Language

Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach

In addition to the hands, sign languages make extensive use of nonmanual articulators such as the body, head, and face to convey linguistic information. This collected volume focuses on the forms and functions of nonmanuals in sign languages. The articles discuss various aspects of specific… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 53] 2013. v, 197 pp.

Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning

Jürgen Streeck

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us,… read more

[Gesture Studies, 2] 2009. xii, 235 pp.

Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in… read more

[Benjamins Current Topics, 14] 2008. xi, 167 pp.

Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill

Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy

Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural… read more

[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.