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Analysing Sign Language Poetry

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  1. Rachel Sutton-Spence
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Some General Points about Sign Languages

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 1-12

  3. What is Sign Language Poetry?

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 13-24

  4. Repetition in Sign Language Poetry

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 25-54

  5. Symmetry and Balance

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 55-68

  6. Neologisms

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 69-86

  7. Ambiguity

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 87-100

  8. Themes in Sign Poetry

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 101-115

  9. Metaphor and Allusion

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 116-127

  10. The Poem and Performance

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 128-147

  11. Blended Sign Language and Spoken Language Poetry

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 148-167

  12. The Hang Glider

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 168-182

  13. Trio

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 183-198

  14. Five Senses and Three Queens

    • Rachel Sutton-Spence
    Pages 199-224

  15. Afterword: ‘Here are my Wings’ — Situating Dorothy Miles, Deaf Culture and Sign Poetry

    • Paddy Ladd
    Pages 225-239

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 240-265
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About this book

This new study is a major contribution to sign language study and to literature generally, looking at the complex grammatical, phonological and morphological systems of sign language linguistic structure and their role in sign language poetry and performance. Chapters deal with repetition and rhyme, symmetry and balance, neologisms, ambiguity, themes, metaphor and allusion, poem and performance, and blending English and sign language poetry. Major poetic performances in both BSL and ASL - with emphasis on the work of the deaf poet Dorothy Miles - are analysed using the tools provided in the book.

About the author

RACHEL SUTTON-SPENCE is Senior Lecturer in Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She researches and teaches on sign language linguistics and the social context of sign languages as well as on sign language poetry. She is the co-author (with Bencie Woll) of The Linguistics of British Sign Language, which won the British Association of Applied Linguistics award and the Deaf Nation Award in 1999.

PADDY LADD is Senior Lecturer in Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

GILLIAN RUDD is a Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Liverpool University, UK.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Analysing Sign Language Poetry

  • Authors: Rachel Sutton-Spence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513907

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3507-6Published: 12 November 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21709-6Published: 12 November 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51390-7Published: 12 November 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 265

  • Topics: Sign Language, Poetry and Poetics, Sociology, general, Sociolinguistics

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