Metaphor in American Sign Language
Description
Only recently have linguists ceased to regard metaphors as mere frills on the periphery of language and begun to recognize them as cornerstones of discourse. Phyllis Wilcox takes this innovation one step further in her fascinating study of metaphors in American Sign Language. Such an inquiry has long been obscured by, as Wilcox calls it, "the shroud of iconicity." American Sign Language's (ASL) iconic nature once discouraged people from recognizing it as a language; more recently it has served to confuse linguists examining its metaphors. Wilcox, however, presents methods for...
ISBN(s)
1563680998, 9781563680991
