Analysing Sign Language Poetry

by Rachel Sutton-Spence

Book Overview

This new study is a major contribution to sign language study and to literature generally, looking at the complex grammatical, phonological and morphological systems of sign language linguistic structure and their role in sign language poetry and performance. Chapters deal with repetition and rhyme, symmetry and balance, neologisms, ambiguity, themes, metaphor and allusion, poem and performance, and blending English and sign language poetry. Major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230217095
• ISBN13: 9780230217096
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"