International Sign: Linguistic, Usage, and Status Issues (Volume 21) (Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities)

Rosenstock, Rachel; Napier, Jemina

ISBN 10: 1563686562 / ISBN 13: 9781563686566

Editore: Gallaudet University Press (edition 1), 2016

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• Titolo: International Sign: Linguistic, Usage, and Status Issues (Volume 21) (Sociolinguistics in Deaf Communities)
• Editore: Gallaudet University Press (edition 1)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1563686562
• ISBN 13: 9781563686566
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1.
• Condizione: As New

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Riassunto

International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions.

       Editors Rachel Rosenstock and Jemina Napier have assembled an international group of renowned linguists and interpreters to examine various aspects of International Sign. Their contributions are divided into three parts: International Sign as a Linguistic System; International Sign in Action&;Interpreting, Translation, and Teaching; and International Sign Policy and Language Planning. The chapters cover a range of topics, including the morphosyntactic and discursive structures of interpreted IS, the interplay between conventional linguistic elements and nonconventional gestural elements in IS discourse, how deaf signers who use different signed languages establish communication, Deaf/hearing IS interpreting teams and how they sign depicting verbs, how best to teach foundation-level IS skills, strategies used by IS interpreters when interpreting from IS into English, and explorations of the best ways to prepare interpreters for international events.

       The work of the editors and contributors in this volume makes International Sign the most comprehensive, research-based analysis of a young but growing field in linguistics and interpretation.

 

Informazioni sull?autore

Rachel Rosenstock is a professor of sign language in the Department of Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Zwickau, Germany.

Jemina Napier is a professor and chair of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.