Search for dissertations about: "linguistic sign"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words linguistic sign.

2. 1. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language : From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs

   Author : Marianna Hatzopoulou; Brita Bergman; Richard P. Meier; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deaf children; Greek Sign Language; personal pronouns; pointing; pointing signs; reference; sign language acquisition; Sign language; Teckenspråk; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the emergence of the linguistic use of pointing as first- and non-first-person pronoun in Greek Sign Language. Despite the similarity in form between the pointing gesture and pronominal pointing signs, children acquiring sign language pass through the same stages and acquire personal pronouns at about the same age as children acquiring spoken language. READ MORE

4. 2. A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages

   Author : Josefina Safar; Johanna Mesch; Olivier Le Guen; Victoria Nyst; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yucatec Maya Sign Language; Yucatec Maya; Mexico; Mesoamerica; shared sign language; village sign language; language emergence; language evolution; sociolinguistic variation; gesture-sign interface; grammaticalisation; lexicalisation; cardinal numbers; size-and-shape specifiers; translanguaging; noun-verb distinction; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Abstract : In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with a high incidence of deafness. READ MORE

5. 3. A Universal of Human Interaction? – Manual Movement as Interactional Practice in Spoken and Signed Conversation

   Author : Paul Cibulka; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; human interaction; gesture; sign; sign language; conversation; speakership; self-touching;

   Abstract : When humans interact, they may make use of a range of resources, such as head movements, facial expressions, manual movement, body posture and speech. It is assumed that participants both produce and perceive this stream of information in a differentiated way: Some segments are attended to as belonging to the content of the discourse while others are rather backgrounded and may serve to regulate the interaction in terms of speakership and turn-taking. READ MORE

6. 4. Writing in deaf and hard-of-hearing children : A bimodal bilingual perspective on their written products and writing processes

   Author : Moa Gärdenfors; Krister Schönström; Victoria Johansson; Naomi Caselli; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; DHH; CODA; cochlear implants; hearing aids; sign language; bilingualism; literacy; writing development; keystroke logging; writing fluency; revision; linguistic complexity; lexical density; lexical diversity; spelling; cross-linguistic influence; transfer; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Abstract : This thesis presents unique insights into the written products and writing processes of Swedish deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children using a keystroke logging tool. Writing processes encompass the activities (such as planning or revision) that writers engage in during the production of the written text. READ MORE

7. 5. Discourse markers in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC): BUOYS, PALM-UP and SAME : Variation, functions and position in discourse

   Author : Sílvia Gabarró-López; Laurence Meurant; Gemma Barberà; Belgium Université de Namur; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Discourse markers; genres; segmentation of signed discourse; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

   Abstract : This dissertation aims to contribute to the field of discourse analysis by focusing on three discourse marker candidates, namely buoys, PALM-UP and the sign SAME, in French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). The first issue in the study of discourse markers is their identification, which has been based on three criteria: to be syntactically optional, to be non-truth-conditional and to constrain the inferential mechanisms of interpretation processes. READ MORE