Renate Fischer

List of John Benjamins publications in which Renate Fischer is involved.

Fischer, Renate and Simon Kollien 2016 Pejorative aspects attributed to hearing people in signed constructed dialogue Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 325–354 | Article

The article presents a study on iconic elements of pejorative discourse in German Sign Language when signers construct hearing people’s interactive behavior towards deaf people. The focus is on a typology of constructed dialogue with special emphasis on code-switching. read more

Fischer, Renate 2006 Kühn, Christine (2002): Körper — Sprache. Elemente einer sprachwissenschaftlichen Explikation non-verbaler Kommunikation Gesture, ritual and memory, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 261–272 | Article

Fischer, Renate 1999 The Noblest Animate Motion: Speech, physiology and medicine in pre-cartesian linguistic thought. By Jeffrey Wollock Historiographia Linguistica 26:1/2, pp. 215–218 | Review

Fischer, Renate 1999 Le dictionnaire de l’abbé de l’épée et les ‘signes méthodiques’ Historiographia Linguistica 26:1/2, pp. 73–88 | Article

L’objectif de cette contribution est d’examiner le statut linguistique des ‘signes méthodiques’ de l’abbé de L’Épée (1712–1789), son dictionnaire à l’appui. Ces signes apparaissent comme la tentative d’établir un code visuogestif dont la tâche essentielle est de rendre les ‘idées’ et qui, du… read more