{"product_id":"exploring-british-sign-language-via-luke-a-rudge-9781350148949","title":"Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics: A Metafunctional Approach","description":"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.\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luke A. Rudge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350148946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350148949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Luke A. Rudge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071387791615,"sku":"9781350148949","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8300721-9a6e-454d-9a2c-1c9079b1db93.jpg?v=1685435796","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exploring-british-sign-language-via-luke-a-rudge-9781350148949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}