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Sign languages cannot be captured with symbols designed for sounds. This book introduces the main writing systems developed to put them on paper, focusing on SignWriting and Typannot. It examines their graphic forms, usability, and the challenge of creating a script for the body.
Most languages can be written with an adapted alphabet. Sign languages resist this shortcut. As visual–gestural and embodied languages, they cannot be captured with symbols designed for sounds. Yet many attempts have been made to put them on paper. Some systems, such as SignWriting, aim to become everyday writing tools for Deaf communities. Others, such as Typannot, provide linguists with a way to transcribe and analyze sign languages.
This book introduces the main systems developed so far, with a special focus on SignWriting and Typannot. Drawing on a cross-disciplinary approach, it examines how writing systems connect their graphic forms, their practical uses, and the tools available to writers, whether handwritten or digital. It also explores issues of readability, usability, and design.
Essential reading for scholars of linguistics, Deaf studies, and writing systems, the book also speaks to anyone curious about the challenge of creating a script for body movements.
This guide provides the theoretical knowledge and empirical tools for Discourse Analysis. Conceived as a university course, it is useful for anyone who wants to acquire the skills to analyze any type of discourse, from medical to computer-mediated.
This book reflects achievements in the growing field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). It presents empirical findings from leading scholars, providing substance to arguments by analyzing authentic language in conversational, academic, and business situations.
Effective language teaching requires knowing how people learn. This book exposes how the commercialized ELT industry ignores this, leading to poor methods and flawed tests. It then charts a new, evidence-based path forward for learners, teachers, and the future of ELT.
An essential coursebook for Arab students of translation. It combines discussion with practical exercises and examples tuned for beginners, making it ideal for undergraduates.
This volume explores the convergence of Cognitive Linguistics and critical discourse analysis. It addresses socio-political discourses on nation, immigration, and war, and is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society.
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
This book uses linguistic analysis to explore translating for the stage and screen. It reveals how meaning is made when adapting works by authors like Shakespeare, Wilde, and Austen for Greek audiences in the 20th century.
A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
This wide-ranging collection brings together essays on a recent approach to translation known as transcreation, which has challenged the traditional structure of the translation market and the agency and ethics of the discipline, and encouraged new research in translation studies
This volume explores translation’s role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.
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