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The signs of language / Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1979Description: 417 pISBN:
  • 0674807960
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 419
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. The Two Faces of Sign -- 1. Iconicity in Signs and Signing -- 2. Properties of Symbols in a Silent Language -- 3. Historical Change: From Iconic to Arbitrary -- Part II. The Structure of the Sign -- 4. Remembering without Words: Manual Memory -- 5. Slips of the Hands -- 6. A Comparison of Chinese and American Signs -- 7. A Feature Analysis of Handshapes -- 8. The Rate of Speaking and Signing -- Part III. Grammatical Processes -- 9. On the Creation of New Lexical Items by Compounding -- 10. Linguistic Expression of Category Levels -- 11. Aspectual Modulations on Adjectival Predicates -- 12. The Structured Use of Space and Movement: Morphological Processes -- Part IV. The Heightened Use of Language -- 13. Wit and Plays on Signs -- 14. Poetry and Song in a Language without Sound -- Appendix A. Notation -- Appendix B. Conventions Employed in Illustrations.
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Introduction -- Part I. The Two Faces of Sign -- 1. Iconicity in Signs and Signing -- 2. Properties of Symbols in a Silent Language -- 3. Historical Change: From Iconic to Arbitrary -- Part II. The Structure of the Sign -- 4. Remembering without Words: Manual Memory -- 5. Slips of the Hands -- 6. A Comparison of Chinese and American Signs -- 7. A Feature Analysis of Handshapes -- 8. The Rate of Speaking and Signing -- Part III. Grammatical Processes -- 9. On the Creation of New Lexical Items by Compounding -- 10. Linguistic Expression of Category Levels -- 11. Aspectual Modulations on Adjectival Predicates -- 12. The Structured Use of Space and Movement: Morphological Processes -- Part IV. The Heightened Use of Language -- 13. Wit and Plays on Signs -- 14. Poetry and Song in a Language without Sound -- Appendix A. Notation -- Appendix B. Conventions Employed in Illustrations.

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