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Direct linkRusso, Tommaso – Sign Language Studies, 2004
In this article the linguistic features of three Italian Sign Language (Lingua Italiana dei Segni, or LIS) registers are analyzed focusing on iconic phenomena. Previous treatments of iconicity and motivation in spoken and signed language are discussed. Iconicity is defined as a regular mapping between expressive form and meaning that can be active…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Italian, Linguistics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Download full textHensley, Carl Wayne – 1984
As the United States entered the nineteenth century, it did so under the influence of the Second Great Awakening. This was the second wave of revivalism to sweep the nation, and it originated in the frontier as the Great Western Revival. One pertinent characteristic of the revival was its rhetoric, a rhetoric that was a prime expression of a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language, Influences
