Language from the body

Cambridge University Press (Feb 26, 2001)

9780521770620

| Hardcover

256 pages | 152 x 230 mm | English

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Dewey 419

LC Classification HV2474 .T38 2001

LC Control No. 00040345

Subject

American Sign Language
Iconicity (Linguistics)
Metaphor

Plot

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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