Language from the Body: Iconicity and Metaphor in American Sign Language

By S. Taub. 2001

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Differential Ineffability and the Senses (2014, background): “Because signs are produced in three-dimensional space, they can iconically represent shapes, locations, and movements in a way that spoken languages cannot (Taub, 2001).”
COMPLEX PREDICATES INVOLVING EVENTS, TIME AND ASPECT: IS THIS WHY SIGN LANGUAGES LOOK SO SIMILAR? (2007, background): “Motivated mappings have, of course, been discussed extensively in the context of iconicity (Boyes-Braem 1981; Shepard-Kegl 1985; Taub 2001) and metaphors (Wilbur 1990; Wilcox 1993), as well as in the long discussion of the status of classifiers in sign languages (cf. Emmorey 2003 for an overview…”
With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time (2006, background): “Taub (2001) presented an extended analysis of the relation between metaphor and iconicity in ASL forms, an analysis that has inspired much of the subsequent work on parallel phenomena in gesture.”
Material anchors for conceptual blends (2005, methodology): “This inter-linking contributes to the conservatism of cultural beliefs over time and to the stability of cultural models as resources for individual and group reasoning processes.”
Metaphor, gesture, and thought (2008, background): “metaphorical source domains has been shown to play a clear role in the use of metaphor (Wilcox 2000, Taub 2001 ).”
Intergenerational influence and ontogenetic development in the emergence of spatial grammar in Nicaraguan Sign Language (2003, background): “The movements used in indicating the relationships between people and actions appear to be metaphorically linked to physical spatial relations (Taub, 2001).”
Cognitive iconicity: Conceptual spaces, meaning, and gesture in signed language (2004, background): “In fact, these forms can be found in metaphorical and fictive motion expressions (Taub 2001; Wilcox 2001).”
Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from Spoken and Signed Languages (2010, background): “In the literature, one can find thorough treatments of the rates and types of iconicity found in various signed languages (Pizzuto and Volterra, 2000; Taub, 2001; Pietrandrea, 2002). Several phonological models suggest that iconic properties of signs must be treated differently than unmotivated aspe”
Explaining Embodied Cognition Results (2012, background): “Conceptual metaphors structure spontaneous gestures and signs in signed languages (Cienki & Mu¨ller, 2008; McNeill, 1996, 2005; Taub, 2001).”