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| American Sign Language | 1 |
| Art Song | 1 |
| Comparative Analysis | 1 |
| Expressive Language | 1 |
| Language Usage | 1 |
| Poetry | 1 |
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| Cognition | 1 |
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| Klima, Edward S. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedKlima, Edward S. – Cognition, 1976
Examines the form that poetic function assumes in American Sign Language, a language that has a structural organization different from oral languages and where the possibilities for poetic organization are radically different. Examples of a complex type of composition called art-sign distinguished by three levels of structure are analyzed.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Art Song, Comparative Analysis, Expressive Language
