Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Metafunctional Approach

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Dr Luke A. Rudge (University of the West of England, UK) J R Martin (University of Sydney Australia)

Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics

A Metafunctional Approach

Dr Luke A. Rudge (University of the West of England, UK), J R Martin (University of Sydney Australia), John S Knox (Macquarie University Australia) , David Caldwell (University of South Australia Australia)

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Bloomsbury Academic
21 March 2024

Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication; Communication studies

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics

One 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. Presenting 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: - How exchanges of information are managed at a social level (the interpersonal metafunction) - How experience is encoded in the language (the experiential metafunction) - How communications are organised into coherent parts and wholes (the textual metafunction)

Examining these perspectives both separately and together, Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics 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.

By: Dr Luke A. Rudge (University of the West of England UK)
Edited by: J R Martin (University of Sydney Australia), John S Knox (Macquarie University Australia), David Caldwell (University of South Australia Australia)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350334304
ISBN 10: 1350334308
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 21 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Luke A. Rudge is a Visiting Fellow of the Bristol Centre for Linguistics at the University of the West of England, UK.

Reviews for Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Metafunctional Approach

A truly impressive contribution to an unfortunately neglected field of study, this volume provides insight into British Sign Language (BSL) from the perspective of functional linguistics. It represents the first major publication to offer a functional description of BSL within Systemic Functional Linguistics. Not only does it provide an important foundation for future work on BSL but also an opening on broader linguistic typological issues and extensions to existing linguistic theory. This is a very important volume for all interested in sign languages and perhaps even more so for anyone working with modes of expression very broadly, including embodied communication. -- Lise Fontaine, Reader in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, University of Cardiff, UK An important and timely analysis of signed languages, especially with respect to multi-channel simultaneity. The systemic functional grammar framework used in this volume offers a coherent alternative to formal approaches in sign linguistics and complements recent neo-Peircean approaches to the semiotics of multi-modality in all languages, signed or spoken. -- Trevor Johnston, Honorary Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia