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Language Research and Language Community Change: Italian Sign Language, 1981–2013
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In this article, the authors present an example of how sign language change is driven not only by language-internal factors but also by changes in language perception, as well as in the changing groups of users and the contexts of use.Abstract:
By providing evidence that sign language is an autonomous language, research has contributed to various changes both within and beyond the signing communities. The aim of this article is to present an example of how sign language change is driven not only by language-internal factors but also by changes in language perception, as well as in the changing groups of users and the contexts of use. Drawing from data on Italian Sign Language collected at a sign language research center in Italy for more than thirty years, the present study shows how language research was itself a major impetus for a new linguistic awareness. It also relates how changes in language attitude have influenced new linguistic practices and forced Italian signers to think about the rules that govern the use of their language.read more
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Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective
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Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua
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Language from the Body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language
TL;DR: This work presents a model of iconicity in signed and spoken languages using the analogue-building model of linguistic iconicity and describes the superposition of metaphors in an American Sign Language poem as a source domain.
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Iconicity as a general property of language: evidence from spoken and signed languages
TL;DR: The idea that iconicity need also be recognized as a general property of language, which may serve the function of reducing the gap between linguistic form and conceptual representation to allow the language system to “hook up” to motor, perceptual, and affective experience is put forward.