Explaining prosodic body leans in Sign Language of the Netherlands: Pragmatics required

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1598-1614

  van der Kooij, Els ^a   Crasborn, Onno ^a   Emmerik, Wim ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Body leans; Contrastive focus; Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT); Non manual features; Sign Language of the Netherlands; Sign language prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747304554     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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