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

1. A glimpse of the material 2. Motivation and linguistic theory 3. Iconicity defined and demonstrated 4. The analogue-building model of linguistic iconicity 5. Survey of iconicity in signed and spoken languages 6. Metaphor in American Sign Language: the double mapping 7. Many metaphors in a single sign 8. The vertical scale as source domain 9. Verb agreement paths in American Sign Language 10. Complex superposition of metaphors in an American Sign Language poem 11. The future of signed-language research Appendices References Index.