Overview
This book aims to contribute to our knowledge of Turkish Sign Language (TİD), and sign language linguistics in general. TİD is a relatively old signed language, and is, at present, believed to be historically unrelated to other signed languages. Linguistic studies on this language started in the early 2000s. There has been growing academic interest and an increasing body of work on TİD within the past decade, enhancing the need for this this book, which brings together chapters covering a variety of topics, such as the history of deaf education and TİD, issues regarding language documentation, a phonological study of fingerspelling, reciprocals, interrogatives, reported utterances, expressions of spatial relations including their acquisitions, and expressions of multiple entities. This book was supported in part by the TÜBİTAK Research Fund, Project No. 111K314. This edited volume serves as a useful resource for newcomers to the field, gives new momentum to future research on TİD, and offers unique perspectives in investigating sign languages in general. Finally, the intention is that the conversations within this volume will open up new discussions not only within sign linguistics, but also in other related fields such as cognitive science.
Full Product Details
Author: Engin Arik
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 21.20cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9781443849555
ISBN 10: 1443849553
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 23 September 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
These ten chapters do an admirable job of showing a range of ways that [Turkish Sign Language] is like and unlike other sign languages and a range of ways that the situation of deaf people in Turkey is a microcosm of the situation of deaf people around the globe. It is a formidable contribution to the field. Donna Jo NapoliProfessor of Linguistics, Swarthmore CollegeSign Language & Linguistics, 18: 1 (2015)
'These ten chapters do an admirable job of showing a range of ways that [Turkish Sign Language] is like and unlike other sign languages and a range of ways that the situation of deaf people in Turkey is a microcosm of the situation of deaf people around the globe. It is a formidable contribution to the field.'Donna Jo NapoliProfessor of Linguistics, Swarthmore CollegeSign Language & Linguistics, 18: 1 (2015)
These ten chapters do an admirable job of showing a range of ways that [Turkish Sign Language] is like and unlike other sign languages and a range of ways that the situation of deaf people in Turkey is a microcosm of the situation of deaf people around the globe. It is a formidable contribution to the field. Donna Jo Napoli Professor of Linguistics, Swarthmore College Sign Language & Linguistics, 18: 1 (2015)
Author Information
Engin Arik received his PhD in 2009 from Purdue University is a psycholinguist interested in the relationship between language and cognition in signed and spoken languages. He is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dogus University, Istanbul. He is the author of the book A Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space: Sign and Spoken Languages.
