Author: Robbin Battison
Publisher: Linstok Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Clayton Valli
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563680977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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New 4th Edition completely revised and updated with new DVD now available; ISBN 1-56368-283-4.

Author: Diane Brentari
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 113567034X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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This volume explores the grammatical and social contexts for borrowing from various spoken languages into their corresponding sign languages (e.g., from English into ASL). For graduate and professional-level (psycho)linguists and deaf studies specialists

Author: Charlotte Lee Baker-Shenk
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9780930323844
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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The videocassettes illustrate dialogues for the text it accompanies, and also provides ASL stories, poems and dramatic prose for classroom use. Each dialogue is presented three times to allow the student to "converse with" each signer. Also demonstrates the grammar and structure of sign language. The teacher's text on grammar and culture focuses on the use of three basic types of sentences, four verb inflections, locative relationships and pronouns, etc. by using sign language. The teacher's text on curriculum and methods gives guidelines on teaching American Sign Language and Structured activities for classroom use.

Author: Julie Bakken Jepsen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614518173
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1018

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Although a number of edited collections deal with either the languages of the world or the languages of particular regions or genetic families, only a few cover sign languages or even include a substantial amount of information on them. This handbook provides information on some 38 sign languages, including basic facts about each of the languages, structural aspects, history and culture of the Deaf communities, and history of research. This information will be of interest not just to general audiences, including those who are deaf, but also to linguists and students of linguistics. By providing information on sign languages in a manner accessible to a less specialist audience, this volume fills an important gap in the literature.

Author: Harlan L. Lane
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 113499169X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Published in 1989, Recent Perspectives on American Sign Language is a valuable contribution to the field of Cognitive Psychology.

Author: Diane Brentari
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135670331
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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This book takes a close look at the ways that five sign languages borrow elements from the surrounding, dominant spoken language community where each is situated. It offers careful analyses of semantic, morphosyntactic, and phonological adaption of forms taken from a source language (in this case a spoken language) to a recipient signed language. In addition, the contributions contained in the volume examine the social attitudes and cultural values that play a role in this linguistic process. Since the cultural identity of Deaf communities is manifested most strongly in their sign languages, this topic is of interest for cultural and linguistic reasons. Linguists interested in phonology, morphology, word formation, bilingualism, and linguistic anthropology will find this an interesting set of cases of language contact. Interpreters and sign language teachers will also find a wealth of interesting facts about the sign languages of these diverse Deaf communities.

Author: Ceil Lucas
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563681134
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Linguists Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Clayton Valli and a host of other researchers have taken the techniques used to study the regional variations in speech (such as saying "hwhich" for "which") and have applied them to American Sign Language. Discover how the same driving social factors affect signs in different regions in Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language.

Author: Ceil Lucas
Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9780930323585
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The second international conference on sign language research, hosted by Gallaudet University, yielded critical findings in vital linguistic disciplines -- phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Sign Language Research brings together in a fully synthesized volume the work of 24 of the researchers invited to this important gathering. Scholars from Belgium to India, from Finland to Uganda, and from Japan to the United States, exchanged the latest developments in sign language research worldwide. Now, the results of their findings are in this comprehensive volume complete with illustrations and photographs.

Author: Roland Pfau
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110261324
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1140

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Sign language linguists show here that all questions relevant to the linguistic investigation of spoken languages can be asked about sign languages. Conversely, questions that sign language linguists consider - even if spoken language researchers have not asked them yet - should also be asked of spoken languages. The HSK handbook Sign Language aims to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sign language linguistics. It includes 44 chapters, written by leading researchers in the field, that address issues in language typology, sign language grammar, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and language documentation and transcription. Crucially, all topics are presented in a way that makes them accessible to linguists who are not familiar with sign language linguistics.