De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 290 p. Bringing together sign language linguistics and the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book focuses on the use of signing space in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). On the basis of small-scale corpus data, it provides an exhaustive description of referential devices dependent on space. The book provides insight into the study of meaning in the...
Quirk Books, 2003. — 320 p. — ISBN: 1931686203. Did a girl across the bar just flip her hair while looking at you? Did a stranger just rub his chin in your direction? What messages are they trying to convey? Next time you're out and about and come across an unfamiliar gesture, refer to Field Guide to Gestures and you'll quickly learn what friends, coworkers, and passersby are...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 304 p. — (Sign Language Typology 5). In this book, an Australian Aboriginal sign language used by Indigenous people in the North East Arnhem Land (Northern Territory) is described on the level of spatial grammar. Topics discussed range from properties of individual signs to structure of interrogative and negative sentences. The main interest is the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 359 p. — (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities 5). This work is a contribution to our understanding of relativization strategies and clefting in Italian Sign Language, and more broadly, to our understanding of these constructions in world languages by setting the discussion on the theories that have been proposed in the literature of spoken languages...
Expanded edition. — Hay House, 2018. — 496 р. — ISBN: 978-1401921606. Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies—and left them wanting more! Now, in this newly expanded edition, Monta Z. Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs,...
Open Agenda Publishing, 2020. — 152 p. This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and renowned researcher of sign languages Carol Padden, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication at UC San Diego. This extensive conversation covers topics such as growing up with ASL, Carol's early work with Bill Stokoe, the linguistic complexity,...
Gallaudet University Press, 2016. — 246 p. — ASIN B0721XHTJL. Increased interaction between sign language communities and the mainstream societies in which they function is creating the potential for greater equality of opportunity for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. In this volume, renowned scholars and policy makers from around the world present innovative and...
McGraw-Hill, 2008. — 176 p. Quick and easy phrases in ASL for daily life. Perfect Phrases for American Sign Language provides 150 essential phrases for hearing-impaired users of ASL and those who interact with them. ASL expert Barbara Bernstein Fant - carrying on the work of her late husband Lou - and illustrator Betty Miller make it easy for you to pick up key signs for...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. — 897 p. — (de Gruyter Handbook). — ISBN10: 1614517967, ISBN13: 978-1614517962. Sign Languages of the World is a one-of-a-kind handbook covering38 of the world's deaf sign languages and auxiliary sign languages. Each sign language has a dedicated chapter, written by experts for the volume. The book includes contributions from both deaf and hearing scholars.
Speedy Publishing, 2014. — 128 р. A sign language guide will help kids learn to sign easily and effectively. Kids are extremely receptive to new languages and signing is no exception. Pictures and diagrams in the study guide will help kids learn proper finger placement when forming signs. This will help communication flow more easily. Having a study guide will be empowering for...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 462 p. — (Sign Language Typology 9). This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to the gestures produced in the surrounding communities of hearing individuals. Olivier Le Guen, Marie Coppola and Josefina Safar - Introduction: How Emerging...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 355 p. — (Sign Language Typology 10). This book is one of the first references of linguistic research of sign languages in East Asia (including China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong). The book includes the basic descriptions of aspects of Chinese (Shanghai, Tianjin) sign language, Hong Kong Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language, Korean Sign...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2014. — 248 p. Mouth actions in sign languages have been controversially discussed but the sociolinguistic factors determining their form and functions remain uncertain. This first empirical analysis of mouth actions in Irish Sign Language focuses on correlations with gender, age, and word class. It contributes to the linguistic description of ISL, research...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. — 634 p. — (Sign Language Typology 11). This grammar of Kenyan Sign Language (KSL) phonology adds to a sparse literature on the units of categorical form in the world’s sign languages. At the same time, it brings descriptive and theoretical research on sign language phonology into better alignment by systematically evaluating current models of sign...
Springer, 2024. — 171 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-68762-4. Обработка языка жестов: от жестов к значению In a world where communication is key to human connection, understanding, and learning from one another, the book investigates the rich and intricate world of sign languages, highlighting the fascinating complexities of visual-spatial languages and their unique role in bridging the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2019. — 370 p. — (Sign Language Typology 8). This pioneering work on Indonesian Sign Language (BISINDO) explores the linguistic and social factors that lie behind variation in the grammatical domains of negation and completion. Using a corpus of spontaneous data from signers in the cities of Solo and Makassar, Palfreyman applies an innovative blend of methods...
3rd Edition. — John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2017. — 413 p. — ISBN: 1119286077. Grasp the rich culture and language of the Deaf community. To see people use American Sign Language (ASL) to share ideas is remarkable and fascinating to watch. Now, you have a chance to enter the wonderful world of sign language. American Sign Language For Dummies offers you an easy-to-access...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 218 p. — (Sign Languages and Deaf Communities). — ISBN10: 1501511335, ISBN13: 978-1501511332. This book discusses issues of complex sentences and discourse in sign and spoken languages, focusing on modality-specific and modality-independent aspects of such complex structures. The chapters address prosodic, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of...
Routledge, 2020. — 389 p. The Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Pedagogy is the first reference of its kind, presenting contributions from leading experts in the field of sign language pedagogy. The Handbook fills a significant gap in the growing field of sign language pedagogy, compiling all essential aspects of current trends and empirical research in teaching, curricular...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 218 p. A comprehensive history of deafness, signed languages, and the unresolved struggles of the Deaf to be taught in their unspoken tongue. Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly researched book, he uncovers the centuries-long...
Gallaudet University Press, 2022. — 480 p. For over forty years, the Conference of Interpreter Trainers has provided opportunities for advancing teaching and learning in interpreter education. This volume highlights fifteen seminal papers from past conference proceedings, along with newly written responses to the selected papers. Many of the new contributions are co-written by...
Gallaudet University Press, 2018. — 128 p. Ethiopian Sign Language (EthSL) emerged relatively recently; its development is closely tied to the establishment of the first school for deaf students in Addis Ababa by American missionaries in 1963. Today, EthSL is used by more than a million members of the Ethiopian Deaf community, but it remains an under-researched language. In...
Courier Corporation, 2012. — 128 p. Plains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communicate facts and feelings of considerable complexity when they met. They used a language composed of gestures made almost entirely with the hands and fingers, probably the most highly developed gesture language to be found in any part of the...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. — 400 p. — (Sign Language Typology 6). Typological studies require a broad range of linguistic data from a variety of countries, especially developing nations whose languages are under-researched. This is especially challenging for investigations of sign languages, because there are no existing corpora for most of them, and some are completely...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 305 p. — (Sign Language Typology 7). This volume has arisen from a three-part, five-year study on language contact among multilingual sign language users, which has three strands: cross-signing, sign-switching, and sign-speaking. These phenomena are only sparsely documented so far, and thus the volume is highly innovative and presents data and...
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