Storytelling and Conversation: Discourse in Deaf Communities Volume 5

In this intriguing book, renowned sociolinguistics experts explore the importance of discourse analysis, a process that examines patterns of language to understand how users build cooperative understanding in dialogues. It presents discourse analyses of sign languages native to Bali, Italy, England, and the United States. Studies of internal context review the use of space in ASL to discuss space, how space in BSL is used to "package" complex narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563680815
• ISBN13: 9781563680816
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"