| Description |
xvii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. A Brief History of Sign Language -- 2. The Structure of Sign Language -- 3. Let Your Fingers Do the Talking -- 4. The Many Faces of Signing -- 5. Learning to Sign -- 6. Sign Language Economics -- 7. The Deaf Community -- Appendix A: The Stokoe Notation System -- Appendix B: Manual Approaches from Argentina, Japan, and Thailand |
| Summary |
Once readers have become familiar with the attributes of ASL, Language in Motion offers for consideration the process required to learn sign language and to put sign language to work to communicate in the Deaf community, which is also described in absorbing detail. Appendices featuring the manual alphabets of three countries and a notation system developed to write signs complete this enriching book. Its delightful potpourri of entertaining, accessible knowledge makes it a perfect primer for those interested in learning more about sign language, Deaf Culture, and Deaf communities |
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Language in Motion: Exploring the Nature of Sign invites readers on a journey of exploration into the fascinating nature of American Sign Language (ASL) and its relationship to other sign languages and sign systems used around the world. In a warm, conversational style, this enjoyable book first introduces sign language and communication, offers a history of sign languages in general, then delves into the structure of ASL. Later chapters limn the special skills of fingerspelling and assess the academic offshoots of artificial sign systems and their value to young deaf children |
| Analysis |
American Sign Language |
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Deaf Social conditions |
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Sign language |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
American Sign Language.
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Deaf -- Social conditions.
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Sign language.
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| Author |
Stewart, David Alan, 1954- author
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| LC no. |
95012553 |
| ISBN |
1563680394 |
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1563685825 |
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9781563680397 |
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9781563685828 |
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