Metaphor in American Sign Language 1st Edition by Phyllis Perrin Wilcox 1563682206 9781563682209
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ISBN 10: 1563682206
ISBN 13: 9781563682209
Author: Phyllis Perrin Wilcox
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 (ASL). Such an inquiry has long been obscured by, as Wilcox calls it, “the shroud of iconicity.” ASL’s 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 distinguishing between icon and metaphor, allowing the former to clarify, not cloud, the latter. “If the iconic influence that surrounds metaphor is set aside, the results will be greater understanding, and interpretations that are less opaque.” Wilcox concludes her study with a close analysis of the ASL poem, “The Dogs,” by Ella Mae Lentz. In presenting Deaf Americans’, Deaf Germans’, and Deaf Italians’ reactions to the poem, Wilcox manages not only to demonstrate the influence of culture upon metaphors, but also to illuminate the sources of sociopolitical division within the American Deaf community. Metaphor in American Sign Language proves an engrossing read for those interested in linguistics and Deaf culture alike.
Table of contents:
Cumulative metaphtonymy
Spatialization mapping
KNOWLEDGEABLE
KNOWLEDGE-STORE
Spatial orientations
IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE MANIPULATED
Manipulation of thoughts
Metaphorical and literal classifiers
IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE GRASPED
“Pool-ideas-into-book”
IDEAS ARE OBJECTS TO BE CAREFULLY DISCRIMINATED/ SELECTED
Discriminating and selecting series
IDEAS IN EXISTENCE ARE STRAIGHT
Mappings
IDEA-DISAPPEAR-PERMANENT
THINK-PENETRATE
“Plural-thoughts-stream-from-head”
PUZZLED
*INVENT
IDEAS ARE OBJECTS
A frozen sign
Prototype GIVE1
Handshape variations used in the giving frame
GIVE2
LSF money-related signs
GIVE2-concede
Social constraint = Physical constraint
Involuntary social unity = Involuntary physical connectedness
Negative social unit = Negative physical unit
Conventional and unconventional RELEASE
Acknowledgments
List of Typographical Treatments
Introduction
What Is a Metaphor?
Removing the Shroud of Iconicity
An Ethnographic Approach to Signed Language Data Collection
Reviewing the Tropes in American Sign Language
Metaphorical Mapping in American Sign Language
Crossing a Metaphorical Ocean
Two Dogs and a Metaphorical Chain
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