This book provides a critical survey on the linguistic use and
applicability of common spoken language concepts to natural Sign Languages.
Notions like phoneme, syllable, morpheme, movement, verb etc. are discussed
and reviewed according to the fact that space does not merely govern the
grammar of Sign Languages, but displays a communicative function in visual
languages: it is shown that space is a communicative resource to Sign
Languages. Therefore, it is pointed out how a functional and pragmatic
approach to the analysis of visual languages is able to show the merit
obtainable by the use of space.
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