{"product_id":"9781350334304-exploring-british-sign-language-via-systemic-functional-linguistics","title":"Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Metafunctional Approach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of many natural sign languages in use around the world, British Sign Language (BSL) operates as a fully-fledged semiotic system in the visual-spatial modality, through the simultaneous use of embodied articulators. Filling a gap in current research, this book investigates visual-spatial communications from a functional perspective.\u003cbr\u003ePresenting a description and analysis of BSL from the perspective of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics, Luke A. Rudge explores how BSL users make meaning from three different yet interrelated perspectives:\u003cbr\u003e- How exchanges of information are managed at a social level (the interpersonal metafunction)\u003cbr\u003e- How experience is encoded in the language (the experiential metafunction)\u003cbr\u003e- How communications are organised into coherent parts and wholes (the textual metafunction) \u003cbr\u003eExamining these perspectives both separately and together, \u003ci\u003eExploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics\u003c\/i\u003e places them within the context of current observations in sign linguistics, providing a complementary viewpoint on how visual-spatial communications may be understood as social semiosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57323854987638,"sku":"9781350334304","price":28.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32370517.jpg?v=1771423178","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350334304-exploring-british-sign-language-via-systemic-functional-linguistics","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}