{"product_id":"exploring-british-sign-language-via-systemic-functional-linguistics","title":"Exploring British Sign Language via Systemic Functional Linguistics","description":"\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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54223642853720,"sku":"9781350148949","price":122.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350148949.jpg?v=1770876046","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/exploring-british-sign-language-via-systemic-functional-linguistics","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}