TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lackner,Andrea
TI  - Functions of head and body movements in Austrian sign language
T2  - Sign languages and deaf communities,
AV  - P117.5.A8 L23 2017
U1  - 419/.436 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Sign language
KW  - Austria
KW  - Gesture
KW  - Human body and language
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Austrian Sign Language
KW  - Research
KW  - Electronic books
N2  - "Research on nonmanual elements or nonmanuals in sign languages has focused on both the possible functions and the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign Language (OGS) today, which has also initiated the study given. In order to identify head and body movements in OGS, these nonmanuals were determined and analyzed functionally via a new user-oriented methodology. Getting feedback of multiple native signers was a main part of this method. Accordingly, you will find the findings of this study in this volume: various functions such as negation, assertion, interrogativity, conditionality, and many more can be expressed nonmanually. Brand new insights into sign language research are given, as well as astonishing results: even (epistemic) modality can be expressed by particular head and body movements"--
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ER  -